Summer CSA Week 1!!!

Greetings to all!

Tomorrow is the first week of the summer CSA share.  It's still early in the season, so the greens are still in fine form.

Please check your name off of the list when you come.  Check the chalkboard for what's in the share.  Items will be in the double fridge or on the counter by the chalkboard.

 Tomorrow's share will consist of:

Garlic scapes
Baby turnips
Mustard Greens
Pea Shoots
Salad Mix
2 heads of lettuce
1 tomato

Garlic scapes: yippee!!!  These are the flowering stalks of garlic that must be harvested so that the garlic bulbs can continue growing.  Only recently have they become a gourmet item, and deservedly so.  This page: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/06/the-crisper-whisperer-what-to-do-with-garlic-scapes-recipe.html has some wonderful ideas for the scapes.  I use them in everything these days--salads, soups, pestos, eggs, risottos..they are not here for long...perhaps the next 3 or 4 shares.  Enjoy them while we have them!

I like to cook simply with all greens.  Here's the perfect mustard greens recipe:  http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/mustard_greens/

Keep the baby turnips simple: slice the leaves and turnips thinly; saute in a LIBERAL amount of melted butter with pepper and salt until just tender.  Eat!

Pea shoots taste just like peas!  Eat them raw, add to salads, or chop and cook like the turnips and cook over very good pasta.

1 measly tomato!  March Farm in Bethlehem, grower of these fine June tomatoes, has been feeling the effects of cloudy days...they'll be much more in next week's share.

See you tomorrow!