One of my 101 in 1001 goals was to join a CSA. We had our first pick-up this week! Everyone we've talked to that has done one before warned us that we'd be getting SO many vegetables and that it takes some getting used to. We were expecting tons of veggies, but were a little disappointed with the amount. I'm hoping that it's just because we're only into the first week of the season, because we easily got through all of our veggies in just a few days.

In our loot this week:
bok choy
broccoli
salad greens
sorrel
garlic scapes
chives
basil plant (yes, a plant... in a little container)
cilantro plant (ditto)

Monday night, we made a bok choy and broccoli stir fry (we added in some tofu, soba noodles and shredded carrots).

Photos taken by Adam with our fancy new camera!

Tuesday, we made some garlic scape soup from one of our favorite cookbooks, Super Natural Cooking. Garlic scapes are the stalk of the garlic plant, which have a more mild garlic flavor. They look pretty funky!

We added some of the sorrel to the garlic scape soup and added the rest to the salad greens. We ate the salad greens for lunch with a creamy chive dressing. (We only made the dressing from this recipe, using it on the mixed salad greens and sorrel, plus some additional veggies we picked up from the grocery store.) We have a little bit of salad greens left, which I'll probably take for lunch tomorrow.

Our basil and cilantro plants have gone untouched so far, but are going strong! We're keeping them near our Aerogarden instead of by the window, because the Aerogarden is in our kitchen. Our other option would be to put the herbs by the window in the living room, where we'd probably neglect them.

I'm excited to see what we get next week! It'll probably be pretty similar to what we got this week. I'm hoping that as the summer goes on, we'll get more veggies each week. I'd like to avoid buying too many vegetables in the grocery store this summer if we can.

Posted by: Chris | June 17, 2010 8:38 AM