What’s inside our half box #9? Broccoli – three spears, of varying sizes Lettuce – one head Rapini – (AKA Broccoli Raab) one bundle Radishes – one large bundle of the French Breakfast variety “Young” Onions – one bundle of these onions which are halfway between spring onions (AKA scallions or green onions) and full [...]
Archive for January, 2010
29 Jan
Box 8 – Roundup
Actual usage & thoughts: Mizuna – Used in the BMTs and BMs, and in the adhoc salad, in both cases as a lettuce substitute. As I mentioned before, the leaves are very much like rocket (arugula), but without the peppery kick, and are fairly tasty. I’m not sure that just eating them raw brought out [...]
28 Jan
Creamy Cabbage & Potatoes, and a Stir-Fry
I found this recipe online yesterday while catching up on my daily websites, and since it featured both cabbage and potatoes, looked tasty, and was listed as a frugal dish, I passed it onto June for consideration. She liked the sound of it enough to give it a try, so last night we did! Cream [...]
27 Jan
My my my… Sapote!
As hinted at in my previous post, we’ve finally manage to make something from our seemingly ever-growing collection of slowly-riping black sapote fruit. June took the initiative and created a Black Sapote Kulfi recipe from scratch (or there abouts), and it’s seriously tasty! The end result is amazingly creamy, very smooth, and has a very [...]
25 Jan
Colcannon at last!
Another productive cooking weekend means that we’ve made another dent on our burgeoning veg stocks. On Saturday, even before I’d had a chance to post the opening of Box 8, we’d used the mizuna and red round tomatoes for BLTs (well, BMT for June, BM for me): The mizuna was an interesting change from the [...]
23 Jan
Box 8 – Opening
What’s inside our half box #8? Mizuna – one bundle Green Chard – one bundle Oyster Mushrooms – donated to another CSAer, as there’s no extras box still (due to the freeze damage) but we didn’t want them. Celery – one large bundle Red Round Tomatoes – two Green Peppers – officially it’s one per [...]
23 Jan
Box 7 – Roundup
Actual usage & thoughts: Cabbage – Apart from the one or two leaves that we used as props for the Dim Sum, this cabbage is still in the fridge waiting for us. Lacinato Kale – About half of the kale was used in the meat & two veg meal, and was delicious. The other half [...]
20 Jan
Mid-week Munchies
We’ve been fairly good with actually cooking this week, which means we’ve also been using our half box’s contents. However, most of the meals aren’t really blog-worthy in their own right, so here’s a quick summary: Saturday – A first for us, in that we actually tried out a recipe from the CSA newsletter! The [...]
16 Jan
Box 7 – Opening
What’s inside Box 7? Cabbage – one head Lacinato Kale – one bundle Garlic Chives – one bundle Red Round Tomatoes – two Clementine Tangerines – two very small fruits Carambola – one (AKA starfruit) Black Sapote – four Avocado – one, the Brooks ‘late’ variety this time Initial Thoughts: There was a very long [...]
16 Jan
Boxes 1 to 5 – Followups
Since we’ve got a habit of not using the entire box each week, but then (sometimes) using things in the following week(s), our verdicts on the missing items tends to get lost in the weekly cycles. Therefore, this post is a catchup for all those “we’ll eat it next week” things so far. Box 1: [...]
