Week 2

Our second share arrived yesterday, which was just on time because I had used up about everything from my half of last week's share.  The only things I had left were a bit of cilantro, three scallions, half a zucchini and a few leaves of spinach.

This week's share was very green...very leafy green.  It contained more spinach, baby lettuce mix, one head of romaine, one head of napa cabbage, kale, broccoli, basil and cucumbers. 

It's nice to be able to split a share like this because there are only so many leafy greens that one can eat.  Casey and I are heading out of town for the weekend and are planning to bring some veggies with us so things don't wilt and go bad over the weekend, but the game plan for the next week is as follows:

1) Baked Kale Chips from smittenkitchen.com (sound weird but these are a really satisfying substitute for potato chips)

          

2) Asian Chicken Salad with Napa Cabbage.  I made this recipe last year and it makes a MASSIVE salad, but it's great because it uses three ingredients from the CSA--cabbage, scallions and cilantro!

3) Pickles. There weren't very many cucumbers in this week's share so I think this will be a trial run, and perhaps an attempt at canning.  I'll let you know how it goes.

Enjoy the weekend!!!

Also, I wanted to share this cool photo that I took last night of Orcchiette Pasta (which means "ear"--I learned that from watching Giada). 

I combined this pasta with sauteed onions, garlic, zucchini, spinach, canned tomatoes, basil, garlic scape pesto and a bit of feta cheese.