T and I signed up for a CSA this year. You buy a share of a farm's harvest at the beginning of the season and then get boxes every week until the growing season ends. This was the first year for this particular CSA. It is several farms and a winery. Of course, we signed up for the level that includes wine, bread, and cheese. That's the best part!Things started out a little sparse with some greens and bread. Now, as the summer moves along, we have zucchini coming out of our ears! Our last box had squash, berries, corn, potatoes, greens, basil, cheese, flowers, bread, wine, LOTS of zucchini, turnips and lots of other green things. To be honest, it stresses me out a little in my futile attempt to use it all up!
T gets home around 8 p.m., and I get home around midnight so we don't generally make dinner during the week. I try to make lunches, and then we go all out on the weekend. This weekend we carefully planned our menus for maximum veggie use. We had pasta with squash and zucchini one day. On Sunday, we grilled zucchini and corn, made a potato salad with basil, and had blackberries over sorbet. T also made two loaves of zucchini bread. I think Q will like that for breakfast, and then we intend to pass some off on our co-workers tomorrow.
Sometimes, there really can be too much of a good thing.
--MM
The one CSA here closed - kind of unbelievable, given that I am surrounded by farmland. If you were as talented as your sister (not this one) you could can some veggies. I usually make veggie/spaghetti sauce and freeze or blanche and freeze.
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