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Sweet CSA Week 3

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Oh, Baby, I've been waiting for these!!!

CSA Week Three brough spinach (again), spring mix, some other unidentifiable (to me) greens, kohlrabi, snap peas and 2 big baskets of strawberries.   

The strawberries are small but so very delicious and sweet.  I couldn't even wait to get home from the pick up location before I was popping these in my mouth.  No, I didn't wash them first.  Yes, I know some of you will find that disgusting.  But the sunwarmed earthy sweetness of them is EXACTLY the way I like them best.  'Our' farm doesn't use pesticides and all of that and I checked for bugs before hand.  So there.

When I first signed up for the CSA, I imagined each week picking up our produce in a big wooden crate with leafy carrot fronds hanging over the edges and mounds of lettuce threatening to spill out.   The name of the farm would be stamped one of the wooden slats.  Too bad for me; it's a big plastic crate and large and deep enough that nothing hangs out.  My last name is written on the back of an index card, taped against hot pink paper and all of that attached to the ugly black plastic.  But these dear berries came in wooden baskets and make up for the lack of the big wooden farm crate.  =)

CSA Week Two

Apple Butter, Green Garlic, MORE Spinach, Lettuce, Asparagus, Whole Wheat Bread with Blackstrap Molasses and these:

Radishes!  What the heck am I going to do with these?

CSA DAY!!!!

Today was the very first day for our CSA! I've been excited about this day for the last couple of weeks and finally it came. Pick up was even easier than I thought it would be. Note the blackberry jam and clover honey!

Tomorrow's lunch will feature these spring greens with some chicken. Yum!!

Spinach halved is pain halved.  My mother-in-law will get half of this tomorrow.  My kids would revolt if I made them eat this.  I'm going to 'sneak' it in.   Wish me luck.

I'm so used to seeing grocery store asparagus it's quite a 'shock' to see asparagus with tidy 'hairdos.'

A wee bundle of baby carrots.  I barely got these washed before I was munching on one.

Oh, dear sweet farm how did you ever guess the perfect cheese to put in my basket that will keep my little mice out of it??   I love Pepper Jack!  This is from a farm close to ours that has been producing dairy products since 1867! They make their cheese from raw milk that comes from grass-fed cows.

Tristyn was the first to try out the honey. On organic honey nut cheerios.