Farm share, early season supplement

The farm share includes some pick-your-own at the farm, and today I went to pick the loot:
10 quarts of strawberries (a couple of different early and mid-season kinds, but I don't remember which), and six pints of peas (two pints each of shell peas, snow peas, and snap peas). Hit me with your favorite strawberry recipes! (This totally makes up for seeing the little boxes of strawberries and peas those who got a fruit share were picking up Wednesday.)

Going out there meant also seeing barn swallows and at least half a dozen turkeys, buying local milk and honey, and sharing time with two curly-haired friends :-).

One local summer Shabbat dinner (week 0)

I signed up for 12 weeks of making at least one dinner per week out of local foods. The challenge officially starts next week, but given my current inundation with produce, I decided to make this Shabbat dinner a local one (minus the grape liquid for ritual purposes; I haven't found local kosher wine/grape juice).

To make the challenge a bit easier, I'm focusing on the produce, proteins, and starches being local (radius of perhaps 250 miles from home, so I can make sure King Arthur flour is at least milled 'locally' to me :-), while spices, condiments, oils, and so on, can be less so.

The menu:

• grape liquid, ( rolls )
  
  
• chilled ( pea soup )
  
  
• leftover ( turnip slaw )
  
  
• sauteed ( greens )
  
  
• roasted ( vegetables )
  
  
• not really a ( stir fry )
  
  
• strawberries* and rhubarb (Chamutka Farm, Whately, MA) cooked with a little honey (Tranquillity Bee Farm, Pepperell, MA)

* From my farm share with Red Fire Farm, Granby, MA.

I thought about a green salad, but I think I've got enough without it. Also, I definitely was feeling the lack of lots of alliums.


P.S. A useful link for finding MA organic foods.