CSA Week One

This isn't a food blog, but you'll probably be reading a lot about food. We like food! Our household is focusing on eating whole and traditional foods and it's definitely a journey. As a step in that journey we joined a a CSA (community supported agriculture) for our summer produce. It means we paid up front to support a farmer's costs and we get a bushel of local, organic produce every week for the whole summer (mid-june through September, possibly into October). It seems like a lot of money at first, but it's a bargain on what you would otherwise spend on organic farmers' market produce through the season anyway. It's cool because you eat whole, healthy foods and you get to try new things and a variety that you might not otherwise pick. Breaking out of routine is fun, and scary, but that's what makes it fun...like a culinary amusement park ride.

I'm a little behind, so the following is our first week of produce from the CSA...from last week.

Here we have: 3 heads of spinach, 1 huge lettuce, 1 bunch rainbow radishes, 1 turnip, 1 bunch rainbow Swiss chard, 1 bunch mustard greens, 1 bok choy, 1 bunch green onions, 1 large bunch tarragon.

Here's how we used it ALL:

Tarragon hake (a white fish similar to halibut), spinach salad with fresh turnip and sunflower seeds

Lamb lettuce wraps with a green onion-ginger relish, shredded carrot, homemade kimchee (my friend Daniella made it for me!), and rice

Honey-tarragon salmon grilled on a cedar plank, a spinach salad with tarragon, radish, and green onions

Grilled chicken, tarragon hasselback potatoes, and sauteed Swiss chard

Stir fried greens (bok choy, mustard, radisn greens) with shrimp and rice. It was supposed to have cashews, but I burnt them! And then we forgot to take a picture.  :)