CSA Week Three

In our third CSA box we got: 1 bunch beets, 1 bulb fresh garlic, 4 PINTS STRAWBERRIES, 2 heads of spinach, 1 huge lettuce, 1 bunch of radishes, 1 bunch of chard, 1 Napa cabbage, 1 bunch of green onions, 1 bunch peppermint. I also picked up a coral mushroom, an extra bunch of radishes, and a leg of goat!

We have even more strawberries this week! And, oh man, are these the best strawberries ever! So sweet and tasty. Also, a little known advantage of small berries is that you don't have to cut them up for little toothless (nearly toothless in our case) baby mouths. Score!

Yummy!

Check out this crazy mushroom.

Here's my plan for the week:

Dinners:

Frozen spinach pizza from Trader Joe's (hey, sometimes we need a break and this will be PomPom's first pizza) and salad using lettuce from the box

Penne in mushroom-garlic butter sauce; roasted beet and chevre salad with sunflower seeds and balsamic vinaigrette

Grilled salmon with cabbage-mint slaw

Stir-fried cabbage, chard, beet greens, and radish greens (including green onions, garlic, ginger) with chicken and jasmine rice

Goat "Bourguignone" with roasted radishes (these were SO good last week) and roasted and smashed gold potatoes with wilted green onions and chevre

Breakfast/Snacks:

Spinach and strawberries will go into smoothies, besides eating straight strawberries

Lunch:

Grilled strawberry and chevre sandwich

Drinks:

Mojitos with that mint!

As you can see the CSA box is getting more and more dense.  As the season goes on we'll be eating out of the box breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  As it is, we had three vegetarian dinners in a row this week (Indian from last week's box, spinach pizza and salad, mushroom pasta and salad).  You'll probably notice us go vegetarian more frequently through the summer.  I was vegetarian for a few years, so I'm totally comfortable with it.  PomPom has no preconceived notions, of course.  And Jeremy will eat what's made! Haha.