Food with the Dirt Still on It, Sweetie Darling
Spouse and I just signed up for a Community Supported Agriculture program. I’d heard about them, and it’s one of the things I had been wanting to try for a while, but I finally got a round tuit, in the form of an article on farmers’ markets in Indianapolis Monthly. Saturday just ended up being a serendipitous day; I went to the bank, so I had cash (not a usual thing for me), I wasn’t in a hurry to be anywhere else, and I was out early enough to actually get to one of the markets. And when one of the growers told me that they were still taking summer season orders…well, I went for it. The grower I chose also has a mushroom barn, which is a huge plus; we can go through a surpring amount of ’shroom in a week.
I’ll let you know how it goes. In the mean time, I need to find some good recipes for radishes.
ETA: One of the things that got me excited about a CSA program, beyond the merits inherent in eating local and feeling good about the methods of food production, was CavLec’s description of her experience. She’s ahead of me on the curve, as usual.
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June 11th, 2008 at 10:12 am
And don’t you adore being able to say “spouse” instead of either “fiance” or “housemate”?
P.S. - no recipes for radishes. One of the few things I don’t know how to prepare.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I do adore being able to say “spouse” now—it’s even better than “father of my cats”.
So far, I have found out that radish greens can be treeated more or less as you would turnip greens, that sliced garlic and radishes can be stirred into cream cheese to make a dip, and that thinly sliced radishes on buttered bread make a semi-traditional tea sandwich.