The Feisty Foodie

Opinionated Food Critic

  • Around NYC
    • Brooklyn
      • Bay Ridge
    • Bronx
    • Downtown Lunch
    • Long Island Eats
    • Manhattan
      • Chelsea
      • Chinatown
      • East Village
      • Financial District
      • Flatiron District
      • Gramercy
      • Greenwich Village
      • Hell’s Kitchen
      • Lower East Side
      • Midtown
      • Murray Hill
      • SoHo
      • Tribeca
      • Upper East Side
      • Upper West Side
      • West Village
    • Queens
      • Astoria
      • Bayside
      • Corona
      • Elmhurst
      • Flushing
      • Elmhurst
      • Flushing
      • Forest Hills
      • Howard Beach
      • Jackson Heights
      • Kew Gardens
  • Cuisine
    • Africa
      • Moroccan
    • Americas
      • American
      • Argentinian
      • Brazilian
      • Cajun
      • Canadian
      • Creole
      • Cuban
      • Hawaiian
      • Mexican
      • New American
      • Southwestern
    • Asia
      • Cambodian
      • Chinese
      • Filipino
      • Indian
      • Indonesian
      • Japanese
      • Korean
      • Malaysian
      • Russian
      • Thai
      • Ukrainian
      • Vietnamese
    • Europe
      • Austrian
      • Belgian
      • French
      • Greek
      • Italian
      • Lebanese
      • Mediterranean
      • Spanish
      • Turkish
    • Other
      • Fast Food
      • Fusion
      • Tapas
      • Vegetarian
  • Feisty Fun
    • Articles
      • Feisty Bento
    • Baseball
    • BlindBakerNYC
    • Events
      • FF Giveaways
    • Fiction
    • Food Memories
    • Food Services
      • CSA
      • Fresh Direct
      • Ready to Cook
    • Jenn of NEB
    • Product Reviews
    • Project 365
    • Recipe Fridays
    • Serial Thursdays
    • The Beer Boor
    • Tuesdays with TT
  • Recipes
    • Baked Goods
    • BBQ
    • Beef
    • Beverages
    • Breakfast
    • Brunch
    • Chicken
    • Desserts
    • Duck
    • Lamb
    • One Pot Meals
    • Pasta
    • Pork
    • Ramen
    • Sauces
    • Seafood
    • Side Dishes
    • Steak
  • Restaurants
    • Bakeries
    • BBQ
    • Bistro
    • Breakfast
    • Burgers
    • Cheese
    • Deli
    • Desserts
      • Ice cream
    • Pizza
    • Seafood
    • Shabu shabu
    • Steakhouse
      • The Great Steakhouse Tour of NYC
    • Tea
    • Trucks/Carts
    • Wine Bar
  • Stadium Eats
    • Citi Field
    • Citizens Bank Park
    • Nationals Park
    • PNC Park
    • Shea Stadium (Closed)
    • Yankee Stadium
  • Travels
    • Asia
      • Hong Kong
    • Europe
      • England
        • London
      • France
        • Paris
      • Greece
        • Athens
      • Spain
        • Barcelona
      • Turkey
        • Istanbul
    • North America
      • Canada
        • Montreal
      • United States
        • Arizona
          • Phoenix
        • California
          • Los Angeles
          • San Diego
          • San Francisco
        • Connecticut
        • Georgia
        • Hawaii
          • Maui
        • Illinois
          • Chicago
        • Louisiana
          • Baton Rouge
          • New Orleans
        • Maryland
          • Baltimore
        • Massachusetts
          • Boston
        • Nevada
          • Las Vegas
        • New Jersey
        • North Carolina
          • Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill
        • Pennsylvania
          • Philadelphia
          • Pittsburgh
        • Texas
          • Austin
        • Washington
          • Seattle
        • Washington DC
    • South America
      • Argentina
        • Buenos Aires
        • Iguazu Falls
      • Peru

CSA Week #17

October 14, 2009 by Feisty Foodie 7 Comments

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture.  Essentially, one purchases a ‘share’ in a local farm – much like the stock market, one then has a vested interest in seeing the farm succeed.  Dividends/pay outs come in the form of produce – vegetables and sometimes fruit.  Different farms do things differently; my farm happens to be also organic, and I pick up my box each week – Tuesdays for me – from a local location.  Join me on this journey – my inaugural season with a CSA – as I explore the various vegetables I receive and what I can do with them to turn them into delicious happiness…
For more information on CSAs, click
here.  To find a CSA local to you, you can click here or for one in NYC, visit JustFood.org.  I found mine by typing “Forest Hills CSA” into Google – my neighborhood name + the word CSA, and I’m sure that would work for you as well.  Good luck and enjoy the fruits of your labors… har, har. 

Strangely, I took only two pictures for CSA Week #17. 

I can tell you this: the beets were roasted simply, and the greens used for more soup along with the kale.  Green beans were blanched quickly and eaten with a bit of butter and salt, very simple; zucchini, sauteed simply, the cherry tomatoes eaten like candy while watching a DVD – again, simply.  Notice a pattern here?  I was into the simple. 

IMG_0079.JPG

I did, however, use up a bunch of peppers by adding a ton of them into my regular chili recipe.  Someone mentioned last time rolling up a bit of chili in tortillas and eating it like that, so I tried that.

IMG_0082.JPG

I topped it with a bit of sour cream, some local/organic tomato slices (also from my CSA), and local/organic cilantro (ditto).  And it was gooooood, though I think I didn’t make a “dry” enough chili this time for that.  Ah well.  Love it! 

Happy eating!

Filed Under: Articles, CSA, Recipes

« Wah Mei Fast Food
Serial Thursdays: The Glass House »

Comments

  1. flyinglily says

    October 14, 2009 at 10:43 am

    I enjoy the CSA posts. I belong to a Food Farm and get a box of veggies every week from June through October, so we are near the end of this little blessing. This year I did pretty well not letting things rot in the back of the produce drawer!

    Reply
  2. Apikoros says

    October 14, 2009 at 10:52 am

    I also enjoy the CSA posts. We were inspired that we are going to get a share for next year. Thanks for the inspiration.

    Reply
  3. Gastro888 says

    October 14, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Looks good? Where did you get the tortillas?

    Reply
    • Feisty Foodie says

      October 14, 2009 at 11:57 am

      I get corn tortillas usually for about $1 at the Chinese supermarket actually and they last a long time in the fridge. These, however, are flour tortillas, a little more expensive and slightly less to a package, I think $2, at a different Chinese supermarket (the HKS in Elmhurst only had the corn ones when I looked, but the NY Supermarket right next door to it had both flour and corn). Hope that helps!

      Reply
  4. Gastro888 says

    October 14, 2009 at 11:10 am

    I meant, “Looks good!” and not “Looks good?”. This is what I get for typing in a cold rooms. Ack!

    Reply
  5. Aimee S. says

    October 14, 2009 at 11:25 am

    Great idea to roll up the chili! But you had to ruin it by mentioning beets. ; )

    Reply
  6. SkippyMom says

    October 14, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    What no pumpkins? I want pumpkins 😀 – but boy-o does that look lusciuos -mmmmmmm

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Recent Posts

  • Holiday Gift Guide 2020
  • Easy Ways to Ease into Becoming an Eco-Friendly Household
  • It’s been a while!
  • Top 5 Luxury Hotels in New York City
  • New York Baby Show 2019 – TICKET GIVEAWAY!
  • Taste of Citi Field: A Guide to Game Day Eats 2019

Recent Comments

  • Stephanie on Easy Ways to Ease into Becoming an Eco-Friendly Household
  • Holiday Gift Guide 2020 — The Feisty Foodie on Holiday Gift Ideas
  • Holiday Gift Guide 2020 — The Feisty Foodie on Nesting Like a Mother – Slow Cookin’ Up a Storm (Mostly)
  • Lisa on It’s been a while!
  • zizi on Banh Mi Cart
  • Feisty Foodie on It’s been a while!
  • Xerlic on It’s been a while!
  • Daniel on Hop Kee

Tags

365 Bakeries banh mi BBQ Beef beer Blackboard Eats Breakfast Brunch Burgers Chicken Chinese cocktails contest dessert Desserts DLS drinks dumplings Feisty Bento feisty family fried chicken fries giveaway Ice cream Michelin stars noodles One Pot Meals Pasta Pizza Pork press event Ramen Recipe Fridays salad sandwiches Sauces Seafood Steak Sushi tacos trucks/carts TT Vegetarian wings

Copyright © 2023 · Foodie Pro Theme by Shay Bocks · Built on the Genesis Framework · Powered by WordPress