Week three of the CSA season and we find ourselves awash in zucchini. Good thing I absolutely love zucchini. We are also overcome by lettuce and while I still love salad, it’s hard to believe that in a couple of weeks there will be no more lettuce for quite awhile.

Boc Choi-1 bunch
Buttercrunch Lettuce-1 head
Red Sails Lettuce-1 head
Grand Rapids Lettuce-1 head
Garlic Scapes-6
Bright Lights Swiss Chard-1 bunch
Oregano-1 bunch
Summer Squash-7

There are two bunches of Boc Choi in this picture and no oregano because I made a trade with the swap box.

This year I planted arugula in my garden for the first time and I’m proud to say it’s doing wonderfully. I picked a big bunch last night to have with dinner and there’s still many more leaves to be harvested. We had the arugula in our tofu taco/burrito thingies. I cooked up the tofu with “taco seasoning” and the results were delicious.

This week’s booty, or bounty, or let’s just say greens with a couple of radishes for color:

Boc Choi-1 bunch
Chinese Cabbage-1 bunch
Buttercrunch Lettuce-1 head
Red Sails Lettuce-1 head
Mizuna-1 bunch
Arugula-1 bunch
Garlic Scapes-6
Radish-1 bunch
Summer Savory-1 bunch

Last night I made a very tasty salad with chopped chinese cabbage in a dressing made from peanut butter, soy sauce, rice vinegar, honey, and garlic. I’ll try to make it again and pay attention to the amounts of each ingredient so that I can pass the recipe on to you nice people.

Today was the first delivery of CSA veggies for the season. I’m part of the Stamford CSA, which contracts with Stoneledge Farm in South Cairo, NY for delicious organic produce. Our vegetable season is 24 weeks long and our fruit shares run 20 weeks, starting 4 weeks into the season. The share is mostly greens for the first few weeks of the CSA, but that is just fine by me. Here’s what we got today:



Rhubarb-1 bunch
Boc Choi-1 bunch
Chinese Cabbage-1 bunch
Great Lakes Lettuce-1 head
Red Sails Lettuce-1 head
Mizuna-1 bunch
Arugula-1 bunch
Chinese Chives-also called Garlic Chives-1 bunch
Sage with Flowers – 1 bunch
*I saw some rhubarb in the swap box so I swapped my sage for the rhubarb

I think we’ll have the Red Sails lettuce as a salad tonight and we’ll dig in to the rest of the greens tomorrow. I’ve already made the rhubarb into a sauce and I’m very excited to have that as my little treat tonight.