csa summer 2023: week 1

 After we enjoyed last year's foray into CSAs, we couldn't wait to sign up again this year.  We went with Tagge's Famous Fruit & Veggie Farms again for the convenience and for the amount and quality of the produce.  We got a small discount as a repeat customer and our first box arrived on July 5: zucchinis, summer squash, beets with greens, green onions, apricots, cantaloupe, cherries, dino kale, red leaf lettuce and an enormous head of romaine lettuce.

So much squash tho'

The first night, I quick-pickled a bunch of zucchinis and summer squash and we had the beet greens, sauteed with garlic, olive oil and lemon juice, for dinner (along with brown rice and BBQ seitan).  By the next day, we had devoured the melon - it was a mini, must be an early variety, and was delicious - and were working quickly through the cherries.  Kale and summer squash went into vegetable pancakes for Friday night dinner; more kale and summer squash went into Saturday afternoon smoothies (with mango and Meyer lemon and orange juice).  I'm mostly at a loss as to what to do with the beets - I still have some in the freezer from last summer! - but I think I'm going to quick-pickle them too, and we can eat lots of pickles with the lettuces.

We get a two-person box and even though we're vegans, it's still plenty of produce to get through each week.  And it's super fun figuring out how to use everything with as little waste as possible.  I'd never done beet greens before and they were yummy - I prefer the greens to the actual beet roots.  Can't wait for the next box!