Swiss chard is pretty much a weekly constant in our summer CSA share. I enjoy it just fine sauteed on its own — but the boy doesn’t (yet) eat leafy greens and the husband has merely grown to tolerate it over the years. Attempts to boost flavor with dried cranberries and/or bacon didn’t impress, but […]
Entries Tagged as 'CSA'
Local Potluck Tuesday June 22 (and Swiss Chard with Tomatoes)
June 22nd, 2010 · 6 Comments
Tags: at market · CSA · greens · local potluck tuesday · vegetables
Preserving Summer: Tomato Jam
August 31st, 2009 · 10 Comments
Our Potomac Vegetable Farms CSA bag was full of ripe summer tomatoes last week, after a slow and soggy start to tomato season here in Virginia. Unfortunately, we were leaving town the day after our pick-up. Of course, that was also the day we got the notice that the boxes of surplus canning tomatoes were […]
Tags: cooking with kids · CSA · preserving · recipes · tomato · vegetables
One Local Nacho Night (and CSA Mid-Season Report)
July 28th, 2009 · Comments Off on One Local Nacho Night (and CSA Mid-Season Report)
We’re already more than a third of the way through our CSA season, and we’ve finally left the abundant leafy greens behind and moved on to the baby vegetable phase. Well, there were some full size sweet onions this week, but everything else seemed perfectly sized for the toddler — baby beets, baby yellow squash, […]
Tags: CSA · one local summer · proteins · recipes · squash · weeknight meals
One Local Supper, BLT Fettuccine
June 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment
We were out of town again over the weekend, so our local foods eating was partly an effort to use up market and CSA produce before we left. This colorful pasta creation used a rainbow of locally-sourced ingredients, starting with a favorite staple at our house, fresh pasta by Nancy of Smith Meadows. Nancy uses […]
Tags: at market · CSA · one local summer · pasta · recipes · weeknight meals
One Local Buffalo Steak and Garlic Scapes
June 16th, 2009 · 5 Comments
This past week we got our first garlic scapes in our CSA bag. Garlic scapes are the curly bright green shoots of a young garlic plant, not to be confused with the “green garlic” stalks that soon follow. Last summer at a New York farmers market, I watched a farmer practically plead with a skeptical […]
Tags: CSA · grilled · NoVA Locavore · one local summer · recipes