CSA Booty - Week 11

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This week's share was made up of:

• 1 bunch Swiss chard
• 1 bunch kale
• 1 bunch amaranth
• 1 bunch of broccoli
• 2 boxes of onions (one yellow, one red)
• Lots of tomatoes: big red beefsteak types, plum tomatoes and cherry tomatoes
• I cut a big bunch of parsley
• I cut 6 beautiful zinnias

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

• The Swiss chard will be sautéed down and dressed with olive oil, lemon and chili flakes and served on bruschetta and/or wrapped in prosciutto (thank you, Alice Waters for the prosciutto idea)
• I am in a pasta-making mood, and this gorgeous lasagna on my friend Jane's blog has spurred me to act: lasagna verde, made with amaranth (in the pasta and filling) and kale (filling)
• BLTs are in my future, methinks
• I think I'll make a batch of oven-roasted tomato sauce with some more of the tomatoes
• The parsley is the main ingredient in salsa verde and I think I'll make a batch to sauce something grilled
• The broccoli is probably going into a pasta salad with some tomatoes and herbs

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

• I've put the zucchini and squash in a sauté with some fresh corn
• The kale's was sautéed with a lot of garlic
• The broccoli was paired with more kale and some Israeli couscous and topped with a fried egg and some tomatoes
• We ate the tomatoes in a panzanella with last week's bok choy and lettuce and some of the onions and green beans
• Some of the chard became a ricotta-sauced dish of pasta and sausage

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.