Lift the vegetable weight (CSA week 7, and organics delivery)

[magid]

With the rain, I was wimpy and took the car to the distribution, and I'm glad I did: it's heavy! (Of course, it's only going to get more so.)

• 6 ears of corn (win!)
  
• a head of fresh garlic (stalk past greenness at this point)
  
• a head of lettuce (I chose a smallish red-leafed variety)
  
• three tomatoes (smallish)
  
• a bunch of herbs (options included parsley, oregano, chives, basil, and sage; I took the latter)
  
• 2 pounds of cucumbers
  
• 3 pounds of zucchini/summer squash (I nabbed the lonely golden zuke left)
  
• a pound of carrots
  
• 1.5 pounds of green or wax beans (all green for me)
  
• a bunch of chard (I got some with color)
  
• an eggplant (white, streaked, or bright purple (read: none of the traditional dark kind); I got a bright purple one that's lobed rather than completely smooth)

Whew! I'm going to have to be industrious in cucumber consumption, especially since I still have one from last week.

Boston Organics: small box, all veg. (And I finally have canceled deliveries until September. Probably should've canceled longer, but this gives me the flexibility, just in case. Though the holidays aren't until October, so it's just regular meals and Shabbat as usual through September.)

• two big bunches of chard*
  
• a pint of small cherry tomatoes
  
• a head of cauliflower
  
• a bunch of broccoli
  
• 6 yellow onions
  
• 3 zucchini*
  
• 16 small Yukon Gold potatoes
  * local

Obviously, I need to have a chardfest as well as the cucumberation. The zucchini doesn't feel as overwhelming, because I can roast it (and freeze it in that condensed form, if useful).

Preliminary thoughts for Shabbat: some sort of roasted ratatouille, potato salad with steamed green beans, green salad with lots of cucumber and fresh corn (if I haven't used it already), and chicken with sage, perhaps stir-fried broccoli and carrots (with tofu or seitan?). Also, if anyone has favorite ways of using fresh sage that aren't stuffing, I'm all ears.

And a *wave* to Mangosteen.

Comments

first cucumber

[magid.livejournal.com]

Salad: the kernels cut off two ears of corn, one cucumber diced, two small tomatoes diced; dressed with a mixture of chipotle mustard, olive oil, black pepper, a little sugar, balsamic vinegar, and the juice of a lime. Yum.

Easy fix:

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

Sage butter. I made rosemary butter a while back with fresh rosemary left over from a chicken dish, and it was fantastic. You seem to get good quality bread, so why not have a good-quality butter? You could also put it on corn or scones or whatever... mmmm....

Re: Easy fix:

[magid.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's a thought. And I just found out that there's fancy (local, organic, whathaveyou) butter available next to When Pigs Fly, too.

(I tend to go through butter in waves, having none for a long time, then eating lots of toast or other butter-bearing things. The only reason not to do this is that I haven't been in a butter-consuming phase for a while.)

re sage

[(Anonymous)]

Try pan toasting it and making a sauce with butter. I'm pretty sure you won't want to toast it in the butter but I could be wrong. Very good on ravioli. I haven't actually tried to cook it this way but I've eaten it several times.

Shabbat Shalom

Valarie

Re: re sage

[magid.livejournal.com]

Hi, Valarie!

Nice running into you the other day.

Sounds yummy with ravioli. I'm currently leaning towards fleishigs for Shabbat (though the menu isn't irrevocably committed), so perhaps after. (Not that I have any ravioli, but I do have pasta and ricotta, and could make some casserole-y permutation that way.)