CSA Week 2: Swiss Chard & Salad Turnips
It's week 2 of the CSA and here's what we received: 1 head broccoli 1 cucumber 3 heads lettuce, including 1 romaine, 1 red leaf 1 bag spinach 1 handful garlic scapes 1 kohl rabi 1 rainbow chard 1 bunch of salad turnips (5-6) 1 bunch of green onions (6-8) 2 yellow squash 3 zucchini PYO basil PYO strawberries The broccoli from last week had to be frozen because we never ate it - it got blanched and bagged up on Tuesday. At the same time I steamed the swiss chard to go with some macaroni and cheese, I cooked the shelling peas leftover from last week, and I marinated some chicken for the next day's dinner. We washed all the salad greens, and I chopped up the cucumber in combination with some halved grape tomatoes. Last night, we had a meditarranean-style chicken on a whole wheat pita, with a mix of salad greens, a sprinkling of cucumber and tomato, and a drizzle of tahini. Then I made a salad for today's lunch of salad greens, cucumber, tomato, chicken an...