CSA Booty - Week 12

Be sure to check out Use Your Booty: Show Your CSA Box Who's Boss for ideas about how to manage your CSA vegetables.

In this week's share I picked up:

• 9 ears of corn
• 3 zucchini
• 1 head of cabbage
• 1 cucumber
• A lotta tomatoes
• A whole mess of Anaheim chile peppers (I used three of my choices to make sure I got enough for us for dinner)
• 5 jalapenos
• I had more options in "pick your own" but didn't have time, so I had to pass on some flowers and greens. Boo.

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

• We've already eaten half the corn - steamed with butter. Yum.
• I stuffed the Anaheims with Monterey jack and some thinly sliced onions. We ate them last night with the corn.
• The cabbage could become sauerkraut but is more likely to become a slaw.
• I think I'll make fritters with the zucchini and pickle some of the rest.
• I'm have to make this tomato rarebit to test for Food52 and plan on using the great heirlooms I picked up.
• I'll turn the plum tomatoes I got into a simple pasta sauce.

So how'd I do with last week's haul? Here's what we ate from the CSA last week:

• I made a green lasagna with the amaranth, kale and onions
• We made a super delicious stack of BLTs - my bacon comes from North Country Smokehouse, it's amazingly smoky and really makes the dish.
• We enjoyed a lovely plate of green pasta with tomato sauce and burrata.
• I am confident that I have a stash of leftover vegetables waiting in the fridge that I'll need to address later today.

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.