Season 2, Week 5 (Already!)

In this week’s CSA box:

  • 1/2 dozen eggs
  • shiitake mushrooms
  • oregano
  • summer squash of various kinds (one round yellow, one elongated yellow, one zucchini)
  • 2 cucumbers
  • small bunch of tiny beets
  • small bunch of tiny turnips (it’s been a bad year for turnips, we’re told)
  • green onions
  • lovely head of ruffly green lettuce

One cucumber and some of the green onions have already gone into a version of last night’s pseudo-Vietnamese noodle salad that let me use up some peapods, and didn’t have any pea shoots or peppers, because I was just too tired and it was too late to go to the store.

The summer squash is almost certain to end up in vegetable marinara sauce, unless somebody has a better idea. The root portion of the beets and turnips together comprise about a handful, so I’ll have to combine them with something (probably carrots) and I have given up on using the greens. They just look a little too buggy, and will therefore go to compost.

As for the rest…well, I’ll figure something out.

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