Week 8: 6.30.12 (mmm, fresh garlic)

…and on the last day of June, our Creekside CSA got even more abundant and exciting. :) This week we got: Carrots Garlic (seriously the best garlic ever) Zucchini Yellow Squash Cucumber Broccoli Cauliflower Green Beans Red Leaf Lettuce Swiss Chard Candy Onions It was also a cheese week. We got Colby… …and Pepper Jack. I’m … Continue reading →

Week 7: 6.23.12 and Zucchini Bread

Candy onions are here! I was looking forward to them this season, and I’m still trying to decide what I want to to with them. In our Week 7 Creekside CSA share we got: Green beans Candy onions (woo!) Red raspberries Yellow squash (3) Zucchini (2) Beets Red leaf lettuce Broccoli Last week I experimented … Continue reading →

Week 6: 6.16.12

This summer is FLYING already!! For our Week 6 Creekside CSA share we got: 1 box of broccoli 1 red leaf lettuce 1 bunch of beets 2 zucchinis 2 yellow squash (or would that be squashes?) 1 pint sweet cherries 1 pint red raspberries 1/2 pint black raspberries It was also a cheese week. (Yay cheese … Continue reading →

Week 5: 6.9.12

This week, in our Creekside CSA share, we got: Green leaf lettuce Red leaf lettuce A MASSIVELY HUGE bunch of swiss chard :) Broccoli Snow peas Beets Strawberries (2 quarts) Raspberries I haven’t had a chance to think through what I’m doing with these goodies this week; now that it’s summer, I can afford the … Continue reading →

Pak choy: Shrimp and vegetable stir fry

When we picked up our CSA share on Saturday, our farmer Josh said he wanted feedback about the Pak choy to see if people would be interested in getting it again in the future. My answer: Yes, please! I already knew I liked Bok choy… Pak choy seems to be pretty much the same thing. … Continue reading →

Strawberry Pie, Strawberry Lemonade, and a Lettuce Confession

This long weekend was just about perfect: friends, family, steamed crabs, swimming, the annual Herr Park Flea Market, tons of warm sunshine…and TWELVE more quarts of strawberries. :) We picked 11 of them and received the 12th in our CSA box. Friends who have asked: click here for a link with details about the strawberries. … Continue reading →