Farmshare, Week Four

[leahbobet]

...on the whole, a wash.  It was Friday evening I got sick, right at the beginning of the groceries calendar week, and life has been mostly wonton soup and rice ever since (although that's improving rapidly today, to the point where I'm actually planning a proper dinner for tonight).

But I did make like one thing, so we'll duly record.

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Last week's load was:

Baby leeks
Strawberries
Sugar snap peas
Lettuce
Garlic scapes
Herbs (I think thyme?)
One lonely rhubarb

Chanterelle mushrooms
1/2 dozen duck eggs
Rye and currant crackers

-- and aside from the crackers, which came incredibly in handy when what I needed was flat plain things to eat, very little got off the ground. But I did start the week off right: By looking at all the garlic scapes invading my fridge and promptly making pesto.



Big pesto! Smaller individual potion!

So it happens that if you take ten thousand okay eight or nine garlic scapes, and blend them with some parmesan, walnuts, olive oil, pepper, and a bit of lemon juice, you get garlic pesto. Which is delicious; also like being punched in the mouth by someone wearing garlic-clove brass knuckles. I can only recommend eating this dish as a couple, because then at least you won't be bothering each other with the resultant vampire breath.

There are chanterelle mushrooms in this because Reasons.

We also did salad for that one:


There is nothing interesting about this salad, really.

And then I got sick and, while P. made me some scrambled eggs and a neat little green onion-duck egg omelette for himself the other day, that was mostly it.

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We do have this week's groceries: Luckily, for the days I can't get out to the pickup (and P. can't get out of the office for the window) there is an awesome green delivery company, basically one cool lady and her cargo bike, which has a standing offer to bring you your share for about eight bucks.

So our leftovers just went huge due to the week of inactivity:

Those damned shell beans
Green onions
9 duck eggs
Baby leeks
Strawberries
Sugar snap peas
1/2 a head lettuce
Garlic scapes (there were inexplicably still some left)
Herbs (thyme or savory; one of those)
One lonely rhubarb
1/3 bag chanterelle mushrooms
1/3 bag rye and currant crackers

Plus this week's load:

1 Dancine lettuce
Rhubarb (damn. I already quit you.)
1 quart mixed baby greens
Snow peas
Sugar snap peas
Shelling Peas
1 Leaf lettuce
Garlic Scapes (my old nemesis.)
Beets

Black mushrooms, either chanterelles or oysters?
1/2 dozen duck eggs
(No crackers this week for some reason I will investigate in person next week.)

I'm starting to stick together tonight's dinner (quiche), and if my stomach keeps accepting solid food, even if cautiously, I feel like we should be able to catch up on all that.

Hell, if not, I'll have some people over for dinner. Hey friends: Come eat my produce.

And I'm still doing that thingie with the baby leeks.

Comments

[mmarques.livejournal.com]

Last week my CSA basket was super-loaded. Lots of variety. But also 4 heads of lettuce. I had a friend over for dinner and gave her a souvenir head of lettuce. I will likely have to freeze the extra rhubarb and peas.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Hee. "Enjoy this lettuce door prize!"

I'm mildly shocked we're keeping up with, and getting through, our massive amounts of lettuce. I really do eat better, in some ways, now that P. and I live together (his dietary habits are occasionally much healthier than my defaults). And two people getting into a salad really makes it go faster than one.

I'm trying not to freeze stuff yet? But I'm going to give in soon and pickle some garlic scapes. Otherwise: invasion.