csa summer (part 1)

This year we signed up for a CSA (community supported agriculture): getting a 2-person box of produce weekly for fifteen weeks from Tagge's Famous Fruit and Veggie Farms.  I'm sure we could have found a smaller farm to support but I can pick up our share from my regular fruit stand so it's very convenient.  Plus the boxes have been great!  Here's what the first three boxes have had:

Week 1:  radishes, English peas, cherries, zucchinis (3), romaine lettuce and red leaf lettuce.  We made: radish leaf pesto with zucchini "noodles," quick-pickled radishes and then spiralized the remaining zucchini and froze it for future baking/soups.

Week 2:  cherries (amazing!), zucchini (1), summer squash (2), scallions, apricots, green beans and cantaloupe.  We made: radish leaf and zucchini pesto, mango smoothies with summer squash, cantaloupe smoothies with summer squash and then froze half the apricots for future baking.

Neither H nor I are huge zucchini/summer squash fans but the squash does disappear nicely and inoffensively into smoothies; and you'd never know there was zucchini in the risotto.  Not only is the produce wonderful, it's challenging us to try new dishes.