CSA Report

This weeks CSA featured our first squash of the year...

Red Leaf Lettuce
Spinach
Strawberries
Scallions
Garlic Scapes
Sugar Snap Peas
Arugula
Napa Cabbage
Amaranth
Summer Squash
Chard

New CSA Box

So we picked up our new CSA box from Harmony Valley Farms, and much to our delight, we got the first Strawberries of the season... We love them with a touch of sugar and Balsamic Vinegar, but I want to try this recipe.


Here is the rest of the contents...
Red leaf lettuce
Kohlrabi
Spinach
Red radish
Scallions
Garlic scapes
Broccoli
Salad mix
Napa cabbage
Red Komatsuna



Dear wife made this fantastic Potato Au Gratin with some potatoes we had laying around, and added the garlic scapes, the scallions and used the rest of the Cheddar we got in the Cheese CSA last week.






In other news, our garden is starting to show some life!

A few tomatoes starting to grow...

And a couple of the peas that are starting to form...

CSA Box June 11th

So sorry about not posting last week's CSA box. The pictures didn't turn out very good and we learned a valuable lesson about taking photos outside vs. inside. This week we started getting more summery vegetables and the twinadoes ate kohlrabi for the first time. They have dubbed them "crabby radishes" in part because they can't pronounce kohlrabi and also because they have the crunch of a radish and I guess they do kind of look like crabs to a preschooler who doesn't know any differently. So, this week we got a head of red leaf lettuce, 2 heads of green kohlrabi and one purple kohlrabi, spinach, french breakfast radishes (which we are going to serve raw with butter and sea salt on french bread), purple scallions, garlic scapes, yukina savoy, asparagus, rhubarb, and arugula. We've been very committed to buying our eggs, milk, and meat each week at the Saint Paul Farmer's Market and we've had nothing but great experiences and great food as a result.

Our first Farmer's Market Saturday!

We've been a little late getting to the St. Paul Farmer's Market this season because of the abundance of veggies we get through our CSA each week. However, we were getting low on chicken, wanted to start buying milk from a dairy farmer, and the kids ate all the radishes before I got any. So, to market we went. We got there around 10:00 and it was really packed. Parking was tough, but there's a free lot just to the east of the market on E. 5th and Broadway that usually has some spots if you have some patience.

If you are looking for plants to add to your own veggie garden, please consider the market. I saw every herb imaginable, tomato plants (from seedlings to huge potted monsters complete with cages) rhubarb plants, blueberry bushes, squash, well, just about everything including flowers and vines.
Our first stop was the Lovetree Farmstead Cheese stand. They have goat's milk cheese that you MUST try and they always have samples of their cheeses available for you to try. We always make a few laps around to see what grabs our attention and there were certainly some gorgeous veggies this morning. We immediately bought some snow pea pods then spent the rest of the morning snacking on them as we found our chicken and eggs, milk, radishes, onions, bean sprouts, and tomatoes (hot house grown from someone in Wisconsin. We were weak. We couldn't resist.) Then, we bought the kids some kettle corn, dropped the food off at home, and spent the rest of the morning at the park. DH has a pork loin smoking in the grill that we're having with grilled asparagus, grilled onions, and Trader Joe's Harvest Grain Blend made with the saute greens blend from our CSA. Can't wait.

Here we go folks...

Well ladies and gents, here it is. M&M's random musings on all that is occurring in our lives. Just the information that you all needed to survive another day. In order to differentiate who will be posting, I am thinking that there will be a color and/or font change indicating who is posting. I am posting first, so I get dibs on Trebuchet.

We originally wanted to start this to keep track of our CSA shares, but it has taken 4 weeks to get this going. Here are the pictures of the ones that we have received so far...

Week One
Overwintered Parsnips
Red Sunchokes
Ramps
Sorrel
Overwintered Spinach
Rhubarb
Burdock
Chives
Black Radish
Decorative Dogwood Bunches

Week Two...This included our Week 1 of our 4 week Cheese CSA which Included a Cheddar, Blue and Mozzarella
Asparagus
Chives
Ramps
Parsnip
Sunchoke
Arugula
Spinach
Black radish
Salad mix and
Sorrel

Week Three
Asparagus
Green garlic
Egyptian Walking onion
Parsnip
Sunchoke
Spinach
Spring radish
Salad mix
Rhubarb
Sauté Mix
Ramps
Garden Herb Pack-Replantable Herbs that contained Rosemary, Thyme, Savory, Oregano, Sage, Giant of Italy Parsley, Basil (x2) and Krausa Parsley.


Week Four- Including our second week of the Cheese CSA (Mozzarella, Roasted Carrot-Spanish Onion and Dill Cheddar and a Fresh Brebis with Garlic)...
Green garlic
Green onion
Parsnips
Sunchokes
Spinach
Salad mix
Spring radish
Pea vine
Rhubarb
Asparagus
Hon tsai tai


That's it for now folks. I cannot promise that this will be a regular thing for us, it will probably be infrequent@best.