CSA Week 2
Today was the 2nd week of Gunter's Gourmet Garden CSA delivery. All went well. Our full-share members each received a large bunch of baby turnips with tops, mustard greens, collard greens, a head of butter crunch lettuce, and 2 baby romaine lettuces. Our half-share members received the same veggies, but in smaller amounts.
Each member receives an information packet of new and exciting recipes for preparation of the bounty that the harvest bags hold.
We’re very proud of our lettuce crop this year and it is even more special since it was a victim of the raised-bed collapse catastrophe and they had to be transplanted straight into the garden. Next week’s bags should also include kohlrabi, which is a new and exotic vegetable to some, and one that definitely warrants experimentation.
Remember play with your food! We harvested some lovely butterhead lettuce this week that's perfect for lettuce wraps. Have you had lettuce wraps? They're delightful. You can find dozens of recipes for them on the Internet, so do a search and try one out.
Hot Tip
By the by, for all you local readers... if you like pork sausage, Harvest Market grocery at 8th and Scatterfield Road has sausage patties in a blue-and-white 36-ounce box you need to check out. It's frozen and marketed under “Southern Farms Breakfast Pork Patties." It was on Managers special for under four bucks. Go get a box, or a couple boxes for that matter, even if it’s not on special. If you see Jim the meat man (he’s there until around 3:00 PM), tell him Matt the fireman sent you. He will probably just shake his head and try to sell you a cart full of meat. Anyway, the sausage is really, really good, not healthy, but very tasty.
All right then, I’m done talk’n. --Matt
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