It’s beginning to feel a lot like fall, both in temperature and in our CSA share.  The tomatoes are gone, save for one green tomato that we got this week.  We’re seeing more carrots, potatoes, and pears, although we’re still getting sweet corn, which I find amazing (it’s still delicious!).  Stir frys and frittatas are [...]

This week we got our first carrots of the entire season!  Carrots are one of those things that taste really different when you have them fresh and local.  They’re really sweet and delicious.  These ones came with their beautiful greens, but “The Produce Bible” said we should cut them off before storing or they would [...]

This week we got something I’ve never seen before: husk tomatoes, or as I learned they are also called, ground cherries.  From my internet research, they are either related to, or the same thing as, gooseberries.  They look sort of like tiny tomatillos, little yellow tomatoes inside lantern-like husks, but they taste sweet, a lot [...]

I’ll admit to a little cooking fatigue.  We got great veggies this week, like yellow wax beans, frying peppers, and broccoli, but I’m having trouble seeing these things as part of a whole instead of recipes that just deal with the veggie on its own.  I am thrilled about all of those pears, though.  Once [...]

This week’s share SCREAMED salsa, which was convenient since we were already planning to make salsa to bring on our trip to Windflower Farm this weekend.  Jalapenos, tomatoes, sweet corn, cilantro, yum!  We also got a nice eggplant, which will become baba ghanouj, and fennel and cabbage, which are a challenge unless we feel like [...]

We’ve been getting so may cucumbers from the CSA that we don’t know what to do with them.  I’ve been making a noble effort at eating them in salads, but with two to six a week, it’s a losing battle.  We kept saying we should try making pickles.  Then, last week we got four little [...]

This week we got a couple things I was particularly excited about: green peppers, more tomatoes, sweet corn, and some hilarious tiny cucumbers for pickling.  Once I saw the cilantro, I decided we needed to make some salsa.  I adapted one of Mark Bittman’s recipes to make use of what we had, primarily the addition [...]

When I first joined the CSA, I didn’t really know how little I knew about produce.  Faced with a giant pile of veggies every week, knowing what to make with all of it is only part of the challenge.  Knowing how to store it is a big part of making a CSA work for you, [...]

I got a question in the comments from Rasko about how to join a CSA.  Unfortunately, the Prospect Heights CSA is sold out for the season, but it’s possible that other CSAs still have shares (I really don’t know here, so don’t hold me to anything).  Just Food is the organization that connects New York [...]

There are a couple things we expect to be making a lot with our CSA veggies.  One is quiche.  Quiche is a great way to use greens that we might not be that interested in eating by themselves.  We’ve used kale and chard instead of spinach in Florentine-style quiche, and it works out great (not [...]