leahbobet | Weeks Six and Seven

Two weeks in one! Last week got sidelined by the giant LJ failure of ought-eleven*, so it seemed prudent to just stick it out until this afternoon and do a double-size post.

As you may recall, week five's spoils were:

1 quart peas
1 quart mixed greens
2 cucumbers
1 pepper
1 fennel

--and some radishes, and some lamb chops.

Week six turned out to be:

1 quart snow peas
1 quart new potatoes
2 zucchini
2 cucumber
1 bell pepper
1 bunch dill

And I didn't add to that at all because I was feeling kind of oogy and it had been enough to get me out there to pick that up.

So here's (some of) what happened, between the pizza, laziness, and very nice Ethiopian food Dr. My Roommate and I had last night.

Last Friday it came upon me to do some cooking ahead, and I needed to use up some of the interminable lettuces, so threw together another OMG It's a Salad. This one was a whole Boston lettuce, a double handful of mixed greens, two radishes, half a cucumber, peas, and two garlic scapes, plus some grocery-store pea sprouts, pine nuts, Murray River pink salt, and a cranberry spice vinagrette (yes, I scored new fancy vinegar from the localish fancy vinegar people).

No pictures, alas, but it was a large and copious salad, and good for at least three lunches.

Last Saturday I grilled the lamb chops, just with a bit of salt and pepper, and topped them with some of the rhubarb concoction from all the way back at the beginning -- the leftovers have been living in a mason jar in my fridge. Salad was indicated here too. Also, no pictures of this.

Sunday brunch does have pictures.

Oh hai thar.

That'd be ~~eleventy billion~~ four eggs, mixed up with two of the spring onion bulbs (it's two! two! two! kinds of onion for the price of one!), a garlic scape, more of the peas, some grocery-store shiitake mushrooms, gloucester w/ stilton cheese from St. Lawrence Market, chopped grocery-store tomato, and a little olive oil. It was not quite an omelette. But it was intensely super good. Like, I cannot even discuss.

Last Monday, for dinner, I finally did something with those duck breasts I got from Sanagan's, also a while back. Or more like I did something around them.

There's that salad again.

The duck breasts were just brushed with olive oil and this rooibos seven-spice rub thing that I got from...

dolphin__girl, I think? For a housewarming gift a while back. So that was easy. The thing on the side, though...

A month ago, I bought THIS MANY apricots. And I have been eating them, yes, but not really fast enough, and THIS MANY apricots were going to go off, and that would be a crime against all kinds of things. Thus was the mango-apricot salsa born: one of my spring onions, the bell pepper, two cloves of that fresh garlic, 1/2 bunch of the herbs, which turned out to be parsley, plus seven tasty apricots, an ataulfo mango from Kensington, the juice of one lime, some apple cider vinegar, and a bit of salt. It was Quite the Thing. I still have a bit left, if the Roommate hasn't pillaged it**, so it may still be Quite the Thing.

Those are the decided highlights: there was also some caprese salad and pasta and whatnot involved, but it was all pretty garden-variety and didn't contain anything like mango! apricot! salsa!

Still lots of carryover going on. I need to eat out less***. I need to view the fact that I have leftover veggies as a personal affront of some sort. I need to devote a whole day per week to cookery.

Week seven (this week), has the following haul:

2 quarts mixed greens
1 lettuce
2 cucumbers
1 zucchini
1 tomato
1 swiss chard
1 bunch rosemary

I picked up a bunch of spring onions and two bulbs fresh garlic from the table as well, because I realized I like having them around.

The MyMarket today was particularly good: a basket of peaches, 1 quart cherries, 2 quarts raspberries, 1 quart blue plums, and 2 quarts tomatoes, which are specifically so I can make some gazpacho with all those cucumbers up there.

The other interesting thing is that the CSA has just started an egg share. Eggs! Farm eggs! So instead of buying schmancy organic eggs for large prices at the corner, Dr. My Roommate and I have agreed to split a share, and we'll be getting a dozen chicken eggs and a half-dozen duck eggs to split between us weekly. So once that factors in? More omelettes. Many, many duckful omelettes.

And now I think I am going to go be the change I want to see in my fridge, and make dinner instead of getting it at the pub tonight.

*Yes, I know that doesn't make any sense. Just go with it.
**She does have official permission to do so.
***But but but Ethiopian! Pho Hung!