Geauga Family Farms–Winter CSA week 3

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Nov 192011
 

Today was our pick up for week 3 of the winter Geauga Family Farms CSA.  The truck was 45 minutes late!  We had a full morning packed and had to rearrange our schedule due to the delay.  The truck is supposed to get there at 8:30AM and pick up time is from 8:45AM until 10:15AM.  The truck arrived at 9:15AM.  I had gotten there at 8:45AM.  I had a nice chat with the St. Noel volunteer Kathy.  It’s a great pick up site, but I really miss my Tuesday pick up.  We are just so busy on the weekends that we don’t have much flexibility.

Here’s a group shot of what we received:

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Let’s take a closer look:

 

Small pumpkin roll, daikon radish

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Pie pumpkin, parsley

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Sweet potatoes, oak leaf lettuce

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Leaf lettuce, broccoli

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We enjoyed part of the pumpkin roll today.  That will disappear quickly.  I’m not sure what we are going to do with the daikon radish.  I think I’ll make some pumpkin puree for smoothies and pancakes with the pie pumpkin.  I’m going to try to make parsley potatoes with the parsley.

We were out of lettuce, so a few salads are in order.  The broccoli will get used as a side with leftover chicken tomorrow.  We still have a few sweet potatoes left, but we’ll be making sweet potato fries this week.

With the exception of the daikon radish, everything is common and will be very easy for us to use up.  It’s a good thing since we get a regular and a Thanksgiving package pick up on Tuesday with our other CSA.  I miss the eggs.  The winter CSA was supposed to have eggs each week, but there’s been a shortage.  Hopefully, we’ll get some eggs in the last couple of weeks.  The Geauga Family Farms CSA runs for 6 weeks and we are half way done already.  It goes so fast.

Geauga Family Farms Winter CSA–week 1

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Nov 052011
 

Today was our first pickup for our winter Geauga Family Farms CSA.  For the 6 week winter program, our pick up is on Saturday at St. Noel church in Willoughby.  For the most part, this works well for us although there is the occasional time when we have other plans on Saturday and would prefer not to bother.

Here’s a group shot of what we received:

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2 types of lettuce

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Sweet potatoes, green onions

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Lacinato blue kale, wheat bread

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Daikon radish, green bell pepper

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Cabbage, acorn squash

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We’ll enjoy the lettuce in salads this week.  We have some other salad greens as well and they will mix nicely together.  We can’t get enough sweet potatoes.  Lately, I’ve just been slicing and baking them.  We have been using the onions and pepper in unstuffed cabbage and will make that again this week.

By the way, I had no idea we had lacinato blue kale.  I was able to check with the farm reps and get a speedy reply!  I’ll probably cook it like my other greens.  I usually saute them with garlic, onions, peppers and a splash of balsamic vinegar.

The Daikon radish always stumps me.  We’ve made “chips” and soup before.  I’ll have to see what strikes me this week.

I was surprised that we didn’t get eggs.  I thought we were going to get a dozen eggs and a baked good each week.  I’m guessing that with the abundance of other items still available that we will get eggs some of the future weeks.  I’ve been enjoying the local eggs, but I wasn’t out yet.

It looks like a great week!