In this week’s CSA box…
- 2 large zucchini
- 1 small cucumber
- Bundle of green onions
- 1 picture-perfect head of green cabbage
- 1 bag assorted salad greens
- 2 small heads of broccoli
- Bundle of fresh thyme
- Bundle of fresh sage
- 1/2 dozen eggs
- Shiitake mushrooms (the farm keeps regaling us with tales of maitake mushrooms, but I’ve yet to see any)
One zucchini went into tonight’s spaghetti sauce. The other will probably end up in a salad, the way things are going.
I’ve a mind to cook up some scallops with pancetta, deglaze the pan with rice vinegar, and toss them into a salad with the salad greens, cucumber, an avocado, a papaya, and a mango. I’d throw in some lotus root, too, if I could be bothered to get to the Asian market, but I don’t see that happening in the near future. Besides, it’s usually canned lotus root, and canned veggies dampen my considerable enthusiasm.
The cabbage, green onions, and broccoli stalks from this week and last will go into a vegetable slaw with some carrots for the holiday weekend visit to Spouse’s sister’s new place north of us. Spouse’s parents are joining us for Saturday lunch and dinner, which may necessitate the actual purchase of more salad greens. I’ve been using the awesomely delicious cooked pork carnitas from Trader Joe’s in a taco salad with tomatoes, peppers, roasted corn, TJ’s Mexican cheese blend (skip the light and go for the full-fat) and TJ’s sals verde, and while I am not sure whether that’ll be lunch or dinner, it will be had.
Broccoli florets will end up either in a pasta alfredo or a salad. Broccoli, as I’ve said before, is easy.
Fresh sage and thyme are likewise easy enough to use; they’ll probably end up on a chicken in the near future…especially because I still need to use last week’s beets and turnip. Roasted roots tomorrow, I’m thinking. Also, it’s time to get the chives dried for later use.
Kale from two weeks ago will get stir-fried with the turnip and beet greens, or if I have waited too long, I can at least compost them, as the composter is going great guns—no matter how much I put in it, it always seems to be about half full. Some time soon here, I’m going to have to stop feeding it and let everything…compost.