The CSA Season Begins
It's all so fresh and tempting.
Once again I joined a CSA for the upcoming summer/fall season. For the un-indoctrinated, CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. And what that means in English is that I purchased shares in a local farm’s output of vegetables for this season. Every Monday I will drive to the farm and fill my medium size basket with whatever is available this week. I attempted to join a CSA last summer, but it didn’t work out because the farm changed their pickup schedule from what they had originally promised, and it wasn’t convenient for me.
Since the girls are home this week before camp begins next Monday, we all discovered the new farm together. Our haul was better than expected, given the lack of sunshine for the past, what seems like, millennium. We received a large cabbage, bok choy, one each of dinosaur and regular kale, red swiss chard, two zucchini, one yellow squash, one pattypan squash, one bunch each of green onions, dill, and parsley, a large head of green leaf lettuce and zucchini flowers.
The challenge will be planning meals around produce rather than meat. I knew from the farm’s newsletter that there would be kale today, so I planned to make a kale soup with smoked kielbasa for tonight’s dinner. The dill smelled so delicious that I think we’ll have salmon tomorrow night with a dill sauce. Oh, and I didn’t anticipate the zucchini flowers, but we’ll have to batter fry them tonight for a special treat. I’m not really sure what will be on the menu for the remainder of the week, but right now I look forward to the challenge.
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