We had another week without radishes, but with plenty of lettuce. Last year we got a head each week for almost the entire season; I wonder if this year will be the same. I will eat a large salad tonight. This week we got:
The strawberries were better this week than last week, I think, which is kind of like saying we got 12 oz of gold this week over last week’s 11.5 oz. Both weeks have brought us amazing strawberries. We ate them for breakfast this morning with some cantaloupe I cut up last night.
This week’s lettuce head was a leaf lettuce in a very unusual color – kind of the color of manzanita wood.
We got cilantro this week! Also dried black beans. I’m thinking of making a black bean salad tonight with them both.
I have a share of beans and grains from Cayuga Organics, which grow the best beans I’ve ever had. Their grains are also amazing.
We also got asparagus – I think we are at the end of the season.
Last night I had some of it and it was so good. Simply pan roasted with some salt. I ate it with a quesadilla I fried in coconut oil, made with raw pepperjack cheese (also from the CSA), some cilantro and Tortilleria Nixtamal tortillas. We had stopped in over the weekend and picked some up on our way home from touring the Louis Armstrong House in Corona (fabulous). They really are the best tortillas around.
In addition to the veg, berries, black beans and grains (farro!), my meat and dairy order came in – my freezer is now full of grass fed/finished beef, organic chicken breasts and turkey sausage, and I’ve got a nice goaty chevre to look forward to tonight, too.
