CSA Booty - Week 5

Week five's CSA share was:

• 1 bunch amaranth
• 2 quarts of peas (pick your own) - I only got 1 quart because no time to pick and they took pity on me and handed me a pre-picked quart - I have to remember to make time for Pick Your Own when I go for my pickup so I can take advantage of this benefit.
• 1 head red lettuce
• 1 head green lettuce
• 1 bunch kale
• 1 bunch mizuna
• 1 bunch spring onions
• 1 bunch onion scapes
• 1 bunch red mustard
• I clipped some basil, Thai basil and parsley
• and my share also included that gorgeous pot of flowers ( I will not be eating that)
  

So here's what I think I'm doing with these items:

• Lettuce soup topped with fresh spring peas and pea tendrils (the tendrils are from last week's box). Yup soup made with lettuce. I have SO MUCH lettuce in the fridge that I have to find a method of mass utilization for the bushel of lettuce I have on hand (I also have lettuce from a few other farms too - LOTS of lettuce)
• Mustard greens tabouli
• Ceylonese-style amaranth (steamed with onion, coconut and turmeric) served over steamed amaranth grains (clever huh?) with a fresh onion chutney
• Butternut squash and chickpea salad with kale
• The mizuna will go into a quiche with some goat cheese and many herbs.

So how'd I do with last week's haul? Here's what we ate (and what CSA items were used) last week:

• I made this amazing dish with gnocchi and vegetables (pea tendrils)
• We had a wilted mustard green salad alongside some great grilled steak from my livestock share and topped my shoestring fries with parsley and thyme (mustard greens, beef, herbs)
• I used greens and onion scapes and mustard greens in a lunchtime rice noodle stir fry (greens, onion scapes, mustard greens, herbs)
• Bruschetta! With kale and white beans. (kale)
• I made my first callaloo soup. Yum. (amaranth)
• Prepared a really pink pasta dish with my beets. (beets and beet greens)

This Summer, I am chronicling my first CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) experience. My CSA share is from Arrowhead Farm, a farm based in Newburyport, MA. Each week, I am posting about what was in my share and what I'm doing with it. By way of full disclosure, I won my share through a raffle and am not paying for it. However, Arrowhead did not know I was entered in the raffle, and I received no special consideration because of this blog. I paid for my livestock share.