Tag: garlic

CSA week 8: tomato season begins

The tomatoes are here! Starting with very sweet ripe cherry tomatoes in red, purple, and gold, I’m looking forward to all the tomatoes to come. There can never be too many for me. Week 8’s box also includes cucumbers, new potatoes, mixed herbs, Swiss chard, carrots, garlic, jalapeño peppers, and […]

CSA week 5: summer produce arrives

Finally, we see summer veggies! And this week I know what everything is, even if the beans are unexpectedly purple. Such a pretty color! This week’s box includes green and purple beans, more garlic, yellow summer squash, cucumbers, frisee or escarole, kohlrabi, a huge bunch of basil and a tidy bundle […]

CSA week 4: roots and leaves

Week 4’s distribution is, as the folks at CSA Commons say, all about roots and leaves, except for the radish pods, which I’ve never eaten before, and which are going to become a fabulous pre-dinner snack. Shown in the photo, and in this week’s box: those radish pods, carrots, little […]

CSA week 3: spring is definitely here

I just picked up my CSA distribution for week 3. You can see that there is more in the box every week – this means that I need to spend time every Tuesday thinking about how I’ll use the bounty. This week’s box contained tender young lettuce and edible nasturtium petals, basil, oregano, kohlrabi, daikon radish, 2 heads […]

The CSA season begins!

Look at that wonderful produce, right? THAT is our first week’s haul from the farm City Commons CSA. And this is only the beginning; it’s week 1 of a 20-week growing season. Our box contained sugar snap peas, oregano, dill, mint, garlic scapes, tender young Hakurei turnips, Swiss chard, and a […]

Garlic scapes

There’s such a short season for garlic scapes in the spring: I look forward to them every year in my CSA box and at the farmers market. They are the shoots of the hard neck garlic plant; our farmers cut them down so that the plant produces full bulbs, rather […]

Asian Noodles with Chicken and Bok Choy

You know how it is: you need something for a quick supper, and have no idea what to do with the random collection of things in the fridge. I had leftover cooked spaghetti noodles, bits of chicken, and three small bok choy.  I have found that the trick of using […]

garlic scapes

Ideas for Garlic Scapes

Of all the vegetables from my CSA box, garlic scapes look the most like something you might find in a Dr. Seuss book. With their tall green fronds they look like ridiculously curly tulip stems, and end in long pointy shoots. These are the flower shoots of the garlic plant; […]