This year we joined the Clinton Hill CSA. We've been been splitting the CSA with a friend in the neighborhood, but she's been out of town the past few weeks so we've been up to our ears in veggies. I love it though because I've been forced to experiment with foods I would never buy on my own. There was mashed turnips (mixed with potatoes since there wasn't quite enough turnips), Spinach Tart with swiss chard substituted for the spinach, Zucchini and Squash Latkes, Zucchini Tart, with squash substituted for zucchini, Cucumber Soup, and Pasta w. Kale and Prosciutto, and of course salad. And that's all in the past week and a a half. And considering we've only been home for dinner about half those nights, you can say we've almost gone vegetarian. In fact, the bacon in the pasta last night was pretty much the only meat we've cooked in a while. I love being challenged, so its a lot of fun.

One thing that's a bit weird though is the farmer who runs our CSA is nice enough to write a newsletter each week including recipes, but the recipes aren't always for this week's food. Like a few weeks ago, all the recipes were for kohlrabi, but we just got the kohlrabi last week (though I just figured out what it was today). And the week with all the swiss chard recipes came a week after the swiss chard.

Unfortunately, I think we'll run behind our veggie stock next week since we're heading down to Bermuda for a short break on Friday to celebrate our anniversary (2 years!). At least we'll have a good salad to look forward to when we get home!

Posted by dahl at July 23, 2007 10:14 PM

That is one nice looking tart! I didn't notice all the smaller pieces around the edge before, that was a very nice touch... I like eating the veggies, too.