CSA Box

I did enough food-related things today for three posts, but I have had enough trouble with daily inspiration that I’m going to parcel them out. But a second post today is necessary for the Thursday CSA report.

Here we have (clockwise from bottom left) basil, dandelions, arugula, spinach, nappa cabbage. Greens, greens, greens! If I get the same assortment next week, you’re seeing it in our field salad on Saturday. The dandelion and arugula I’ll cook with pasta, the spinach I’ll use to make this intriguing enchilada recipe and the nappa cabbage will become either slaw or okinomi yaki, unless I discover some new recipes.

Beets, carrots, green beans and peppers. I’ll use the carrots in the vegetable stock for the dinner, the beets are going into a beet bag, the peppers will be roasted, and the green beans may make a Nicoise salad, if I can bring myself to buy tuna.

Lots of heirloom tomatoes. Three are slightly damaged; there was a box of squishy extras for people to take if they wanted. I brought them to Veggielution this afternoon for the high school kids to cook with. About which more later.

And eggplant. They’ve already been transformed into baba ganouj, which I’m bringing with me tomorrow, along with a truly enormous apple pie, which has finally used up all of the apples in the house. But I still have way too much food in my kitchen; I need a walk-in of my own.

Tomorrow? We’re going up to la casa de los padres de la Jefe, Heather’s dad’s house in Calistoga, where we’re going to pick 1200 lbs of grapes to make wine, which will fill up a barrel in my basement. Stay tuned.