CSA Week 5
/I had a few things left from the 4th week share from Gorman Produce Farm Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) when it came time to pick up week 5: a couple of carrots, one leek, an onion, a few cloves of garlic and 1/3 of the cabbage. All the more fragile veggies were consumed before they were spoiled. I have discovered that I can enjoy a whole cucumber in one sitting made into a smoothie with pineapple salsa and water on a hot afternoon. The vines on my deck have a lot of small cucumbers right now so the cucumber + salsa smoothie might become a summer afternoon tradition!
The share for week 5 includes:
- 1 bunch of carrots
- 1 bunch of leeks
- 1 head of magenta lettuce
- 2 onions
- 2 small heads of cabbage (from at 3 types!)
- 2 kohlrabi
- 1 pound squash (yellow and zucchini)
- 2 pounds of cucumbers
- 1 bunch of kale (my choice instead of chard or collards)
I already made most of the kale into chips! And we’ve made a start on the magenta lettuce and purple cabbage as part of last night’s salad.
I am most thrilled about the kohlrabi since I discovered how great it tastes in stir fries when it was part of the week 3 share. They are such an odd looking vegetable but have become my favorite new food so far this summer (although the beets in Fruit Beety are a very close second!).