I'm in LOVE with this CSA! Quality, quantity, and communication have all been top-notch. Here's the haul for the last 2 weeks. Sorry for the delay in writing, but we were in St. Louis last Wednesday...see Bobby's most recent entry for picts :)
May 27th
1# organic cornmeal
1 large sack baby salad greens and Asian greens
June 3rd
2 large turnips with greens attached
1 huge head of green leaf lettuce
1 huge head of red leaf lettuce
1 medium bunch of delicate little radishes
1 medium sack of baby lettuce greens and Asian greens
Those heads of lettuce are gorgeous and wet and dirty from the field. What a joy! We left the radishes there...couldn't imagine how to fix them in a tasty way. We'll enjoy baby lettuce salads for 2 days, then we'll break into the big heads to sustain us for the next week or so.
I'll prepare sauteed turnip greens for dinner tonight along with chicken fajitas...peppers and onions were frozen from Bob's CSA last year, whole wheat tortillas made by hand yesterday in the company of 3 charming "helpers" named Alice, Mary, and Spencer. I love making our own tortillas for many reasons. I love to do it with Alice because she's interested in the whole process...not just the eating :) Mary and Spencer proved equally as engaging. They each got their own ball of dough to flatten and play with, but all balls were eventually eaten before they could be cooked. They requested spatulas and stood on their seats in an impromptu doot-da-doo concert, led by Mary. At the end of this video, Alice is proclaiming that she's going to dance to the music. I didn't understand her until it was too late :( so I don't have a video of her dancing to the doot-da-doo music. Suffice it to say, there are few things more entertaining than a little girl leap-dancing to the music of her friends' spatulas.
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Wow your kitchen looks so clean! Did you just paint? Do you want to come and clean my kitchen :)
ReplyDeleteRe: Radishes
ReplyDeleteYou could grate or slice them for a nice crunch to your salad. The also would have been good eaten with your fajitas, or really any Mexican food. They go great with grilled green onions. For the onions, the best ones would be the Mexican kind with the fat onion bulb, but you probably aren't going to get those from your CSA, or even at all in IL :(
If you like lemon, then another suggestion would be to slice the radishes into rounds, toss them with lemon juice, and salt (optional), then use them as above, or eat as a snack.
As far a storage, you can store the sliced radishes in water to maintain freshness and crunch.
I actually don't eat radishes on a regular basis. All this info comes from my coworker (who is Mexican). She says she has never eaten them cooked.