We Heart Lettuce and Mini Carrots
I’ve been remiss in posting about the latest CSA news… but no more! Here’s a recap of Weeks 4 and 5… and of our impromptu trip to the farm.
Week 4’s pickup was another “bonus” week in that it included a cooking demo. This particular demo featured different salad dressing recipes. I tried three of the options, and they were all fairly yummy… However, I do plan to tweak the recipes when I make them at home! Most interesting to me, though, was the way they served the dressings, on a mixture of egg noodles, mixed greens, and radish slices. It was a very interesting take on a combo pasta and lettuce-based salad!
Week 4′s chalkboard breakdown, dressing samples, and our basket
Last Friday, we happened to be out near the farm, so we decided to stop in and see where all of these veggies were coming from. Finding it was a bit of a challenge. The address we were given was the farmers’ home address. From the weekly newsletter, I knew that they lived “three doors down” from the farm. The problem was, the house we found based on the address was in a subdivision. It was a puzzlement, to be sure. Where was the farm?? We drove down the street, thinking maybe the street ended at the farm- nope. We drove around the block, thinking maybe the farm was there- nope. We happened across another larger farm, that you could see from a nearby road, but it wasn’t our CSA farm. Where was it?? We decided to go back to the farmers’ home and look again, more carefully, for any sign of the farm. We were getting annoyed at the decided lack of farm when I spotted a little dirt road! It was highly unremarkable, which was probably why we missed it the first time! That road, in the middle of an ordinary neighborhood, led to the farm! Who knew??
A farm in the middle of a neighborhood— highly unusual!
Me picking our allotment of u-pick peas (do you know how few pea pods are in a handful??),
the farmer plowing the field, and Kevin exploring the farm
Week 5’s pickup was a salad extravaganza. I, for one, was very excited by this! Lots of yummy lettuces, more radishes, Italian parsley, and the first carrots of the year! Aside from the fennel and the kale (which Kevin’s Mom ended up taking in full as we’ve decided we’re not on the kale bandwagon), everything else was as good as eaten! I’m not so sure about the fennel. A woman at the pickup was trying to give her portion away since she didn’t like it. We tried little pinches of it, and the results were inconclusive. Kind of an ehhhh taste. Oh, and it made my car smell like black licorice.
Week 5’s chalkboard breakdown… Kevin, Kevin’s Mom, and Kevin’s Grandpa met me at the market for this week’s pickup, and in the hubbub, I forgot to get a picture of this week’s basket—oopsies!
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