CSA Farm Share 2010: Week 0: OMGREENS!!

[surrealestate]

Could I be any more excited about the start of farm share season? YAY!!!

Once again, I am splitting two full shares, but this year, Parker has started a week before Red Fire, so in the interest of syncing up the tags, I'm calling this Week 0. It was great to see Steve and chat with my fellow shareholders. As usual, some of these bunches are bigger than my head. To illustrate, the bunch of red leaf lettuce I bought at the farmer's market yielded one big salad, but last night I had two big salads off the red leaf and still have at least 2/3 of it left.

• 2 bunches Red Leaf Lettuce
• 2 bunches Bibb Lettuce
• 2 bunches Pea Tendrils
• 2 bunches Mizuna
• 2 bunches Chicory
• 2 bunches Bok Choi
• 2 bunches Spinach
• 2 bunches Red Russian Kale

[ETA: Last year I started out showing just my take, but that was very confusing and I shifted to listing the total shares each week, which is what I'll do this year as well.]

Comments

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

I got it too! What does one do with chicory? I think it tastes yucky. Does the flavor mellow with cooking?

[preraphaelite.livejournal.com]

The internet seems to suggest cooking is the way to go -- I think my plan is to frittata it.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Cooking definitely helps, as does fermenting. Sometimes there are things that you just don't like, though. Mizuna is one of those for me. Pretty much the only way I can eat it is heavily processed in some way (blended, cooked, fermented, whatever) along with a lot more of other stuff so that it gets lost inside. Which all together seems kind of silly so I should really just give it away.