Archive for ‘June 1st, 2017’

CSA Week 2: I ate all of my vegetables!

Taco bean and beef mix using butter lettuce leaves for taco shells.

My new favorite salad! The original recipe is from Six Seasons: a new way with vegetables , but I bought the book after seeing Dishing Up the Dirt’s post.

Spinach, salami, onion stir fry which I topped with a poached egg.

Fresh Dill!!! Oh, boy – I made some “ranch-ish” dressings with this fresh dill and plenty of black pepper. SO very good.

Hard to see, but there is a burger in there! Hamburger with onion, Fontina cheese, avocado … butter lettuce for the bun… and a side of baked sweet potato “fries”.

A sweet potato/Fontina/Asiago riff on Smitten Kitchen’s Potatoes Anna with a side salad of Spinach and Chickpeas.

An incredible, edible, vegetable week!

Week 3 haul:

Napa Cabbage ( a special “small” version that my farmer found specifically for partial shares!), arugula, baby romaine, sun sprouts, tatsoi, salad radishes and collard greens.

Hiding – sort of underneath the vegetables …is a printed copy of the farm newsletter.

It is wonderful!

In addition to telling about all in the CSA box, there are recipe links AND info on planting, farm issues and generally, information that makes me feel part of the farm experience. I LOVE it!

House Hunting

Actually, it is the aftermath of house hunting. And not looking for a new house … hunting INSIDE the house.

I think the last big mouse invasion was after a very wet Spring.

At any rate, Auggie has been on the job. It is a nighttime job and after several nights of a lot of activity he apparently needed some catch up sleep. Usually he is pestering to go out before I have my coffee made but this morning, even with Bear out and the doors open, he didn’t budge.