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 box, but we ended up with two. If you see the photos, you’ll understand why they gave us two of them!
• Cilantro/Coriander – donated to the same CSAer as the mushrooms, since June is passionately averse to the taste (and even the smell) of this
• Canistel – two

Box 8

Initial thoughts:

Another small box due to the frost damage reducing the harvests, especially once we’d given away the mushrooms and coriander. However, what’s left is all very easily usable, so I’m hoping that this will be our first box that we complete finish… apart from the green peppers of course

Usage ideas:

• Mizuna – As mentioned in the Box 7 roundup, June had a BLT today. The ‘L’ was really not L but M, Mizuna that is. I skipped the T to have a BL (well, BM) as well. Still plenty left though, so we might do another stirfry at some point, or there’s always salads. Actually, since I’m going to be taking lunch to work with me this week, I might end up using some in the sarnies I make.
• Green Chard – June mentioned a Potato & Greens soup recipe – a clone of the ‘Zuppa  Toscani’ from Olive Garden – earlier today, which sounds great to me, since that’s the soup I always go for when we go there. The chard will definitely be good in this, so that’s at least some of it covered.
• Celery – The CSA newsletter features an ‘Ants on a Log’ recipe this time, which makes me laugh, as I can’t hear that phrase without thinking of the daft Playhouse Disney show ‘Tasty Time with ZeFronk’ which featured it. Blame El Nino for inflicting that upon us… However, I really like celery, so I’ll probably eat a fair amount of it raw (with mayo is my preferred), but it’s easily cooked with too, so there’s plenty of other possibilities.
• Red Round Tomatoes – As with last week’s, these will need to wait most of the week to ripen up fully. Then, who knows
• Green Peppers – Given the size of the peppers, I might manage to use the smaller of the two, but I suspect that the larger will end up in the freezer with the others…
• Canistel – These will take a fair while to ripen, if the previous ones are anything to go by, so I doubt we’ll be able to use these this week.

Photos by me, edited by June:

Mizuna

Green Chard

Celery

Red Round Tomatoes

Green Peppers

Canistel

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