The Whole Wheat

I’ve created another brief video of my CSA box contents this week. Such wonderful produce! I hope you enjoy!

I forgot to photograph all the veggies in my box this past week, but I do have a picture of the leeks I mentioned. They are huge and gorgeous! I had to top them in order to put them in the fridge. Enjoy!

I have a fantastic photo at home of the amazing leeks we are getting in our boxes recently. Honestly I think the leek is about 3 feet long! WOW!

The strawberries have been coming weekly for about a month now and I just cannot get enough. Commercially produced strawberries don’t even have a fraction of the flavor these contain in each bite. Plus I have been told that there are several varieties of strawberry planted, so throughout the spring and summer the specific flavor & type of strawberry will evolve. Exciting!!

And with that, let me tell you about this week’s amazing box:

• leeks
• strawberries
• big bag of mixed salad greens
• Lacinto kale
• carrots
• baby turnips with perfect greens still attached
• spicy & delicious radishes
• little bag of spinach

As I mentioned in the video, I typically top the leeks and other items such as radishes & turnips. This simply means removing the greens from the turnip bulb and storing them separately. It helps the root keep longer to remove the greens. For the leeks I cut off the long weedy parts we won’t eat just so they are easy to store.

This week a treat! In lieu of a photo, I made a video of our weekly CSA box! I wanted to show what I do with all the variety of vegetables I get – how to store and also, what they look like. Enjoy!

Please excuse my bedraggled appearance. I just returned from a trip to Texas and I just got off the plane.

This week’s CSA box arrived Wednesday evening as normal. The flower bouquet which I neglected to photograph is starting to change! I wish I knew enough about flowers to describe what they are but the vibrant reds, purples, oranges, and even color tipped white beauties make my kitchen so happy! In this week’s box:

• salad mix (not shown)
• carrots (orange)
• arugula (the large leafy cluster in the right part of the photo)
• radishes (red, large, and gorgeous!)
• leeks
• fennel
• agretti (the pine needle looking greens in the front left)
• baby Shitake mushrooms

I’m really excited to start seeing mushrooms! And the agretti greens are extremely unusual and tasty! Hopefully some recipes will follow soon!

I’m a bit late with this week’s CSA post and sadly I hopped to putting the veggies away so quickly this week that I neglected to snap a photo.

The most interesting item in the box this week is cardoons.  Cardoons are actually the same species as the globe artichoke but a naturally occurring variant that look like long & sometimes much larger celery stalks.  I’m anxious to cook these and see how they taste!

Our box this week contained:

• celery
• parsnips
• purple carrots – these are gorgeous!
• mustard greens
• spinach
• mixed salad
• erbette chard
• cardoons
• Meyer lemons – YUM!

Maybe I’ll even splurge on a dessert with those yummy Meyer lemons.