Jul 16 2008
Calvert Farm CSA Week 10
In this week’s box:
- 5 Zucchini
- 3 Cucumbers
- 2 tomatoes
- 6 ears corn
- 1 yellow onion
- Spring mix
- Beets
- 2 peaches
- Green beans
I think that’s it, although surely Michael will correct me if I’m wrong. A coworker brought in a lemon cucumber from his garden yesterday, which is positively darling. I managed to take it home since everyone else was weirded out by it, and Michael and I will eat it tonight.
As for this week’s meals:
Tonight I’m making pasta salad with all the tomatoes and cucumbers from the CSA and the lemon cucumber, boiling a few ears of corn and baking some frozen tilapia using Michael’s easy fish method.
Michael is going to use much of the zucchini by making Madhur Jaffrey’s recipe for zucchini with red lentils from World Vegetarian. It’s a bit of a time consuming dish because you have to toast the spices and then let the zucchini cook in them, but the zucchini soaks up all the tasty spices. It’s a pretty fantastic way to use up zucchini. He’s making some changes to the recipe - using more zucchini than it calls for and less water with the red lentils (which were soupy last time around, not so good).
At some point either on Friday or Saturday, we’ll be making veggie burgers and boiling the rest of the corn. I will likely try to roast some zucchini in our broiler, maybe with a red pepper and dress it with some vinaigrette and possibly sun-dried tomatoes.
On Sunday evening, I’ll be making salmon teriyaki and a big salad with our spring mix and another head of lettuce to be decided by what’s good at the Farmer’s Market this weekend.
Monday, Michael is planning to do the beets and green beans with a lemon mustard dressing, the recipe is here.
If we succeed in this week’s mission, we will have used all of our produce from this week’s box.
Your CSA loot sounds great!
mmm beets. I wish I planted beets this year. My zucch is growing like mad but seems to fail after it gets to a certain size, so I’ve started to pick them when they are VERY wee. They are SO tasty though, I sauteed three teensy zucch cut into tiny half-moons the other day and they were fantastic.
I want to hear about this lemon cuke!
How are the plants on your terrace?
Our plants are actually doing better now. We’ve got a load of cayennes (more than 15) growing on our itty bitty cayenne. And we’ve got between 5-10 bell peppers growing on the ace plant, too. Our tomatoes have finally started fruiting - they’re either getting enough sun by reaching out over our balcony or when we fertilized them about two weeks ago, they really took to it.
Our herbs are fine, except our basil is dying because we didn’t water it frequently enough and it started to flower. I keep trying to bring it back to a better life by watering it and trimming it, so we’ll see what happens.
And we moved our lemon tree away from the tomato plant shadows and it perked up and is getting tons of new leaf growth, although any lemons are in the distant future.
I hope you enjoy the beet and green bean salad!