Year 3 - Day 143 - May 22

Today was the first day of our CSA for the year. Last year, we just did the summer share. Our thought process was that I wouldn't eat much of the early stuff but I do eat a lot of the fruits and things that come in the summer. However, since the summer share is a full share's worth of food each week, we couldn't eat it all before it went bad. So we flipped to half the amount of food for more than twice as many weeks. As suspected, this week's food isn't a lot of things I like. We got lots of leafy greens. I did eat the strawberries already, which is why they are not in the picture. :) Red lettuce, spinach, bok choi, and spring onions are the greens of the week.

Year 2 - Day 226 - August 15

When we started getting eggplant in our crop share a couple weeks ago, naturally my first thought was not a positive one. Mike on the other hand was thrilled. His grandmother used to make fried eggplant and he was the only one that would eat it with her. He found a recipe online for the last eggplant and liked it so much that he re-did it with this week's share. That's a lot of fried vegetables on that plate!

Year 2 - Day 218 - August 7

When we got 3 zucchini with our crop share this week, I decided that I'd try to make zucchini bread. I googled, facebooked, and tweeted and decided to go with this recipe: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/moms-zucchini-bread/detail.aspx

After I grated the zucchini I opted to toss it in the food processor to get the pieces as small as possible. I'm glad I did because the one hunk I bit into in my finished product added a lot of bitterness to that bite. It didn't taste like vegetable, but it wasn't sugary goodness like the other bites.

All in all, it's decent, and I'd eat it again. I think it tastes a lot like the Amish Friendship Bread that uses vanilla pudding. (Mostly because flour, sugar, and cinnamon are the main ingredients of both!) I do prefer banana bread, but neither one is all that healthy so I won't be eating either on a daily basis. :)

My picture shows why I don't bake more often! :)

Year 2 - Day 215 - August 4

Today's crop share ... zucchini, corn, yellow squash, candy onion, potatoes, watermelon, hot banana peppers (I didn't know they came in hot), grape tomatoes & regular tomatoes.

Watermelon, corn, and potatoes are easy to eat. We are using the little tomatoes in "microwave pasta," I will try to make zucchini bread, and we'll figure something out with the others...

Year 2 - Day 208 - July 28

After getting home at 3am and sleeping until almost lunch time, we forced ourselves to get up and attempt to get on a schedule. It's crop share day!! Mike was excited to see an eggplant, and created some fried eggplant for his pasta at dinner, while I went with the regular meatballs.

Year 2 - Day 194 - July 14

Today was the first day of our summer crop share. Mike has been interested in doing this for awhile, but I don't eat enough of the leafy greens to make the spring part worth it. I can help with the summer foods! Although if we weren't going away at the crack of dawn on Sunday, it'd be easier. :) We got 13 ears of corn, a bag of green beans, 5 peaches, a giant tomato, 2 candy onions, 1 red onion, a head of red cabbage and a cantaloupe. Since we're going away, I took the smallest versions of everything available... but it will still be hard this week!