CSA Week #19

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. 

You may or may not have noticed that I skipped last week’s post about my CSA.  Not because I wanted to, but because I opened up the folder where ostensibly, the photos for that week’s CSA (week #18, if you’re keeping track) should be kept, and… nothing.  I don’t know what happened.  I look at that list and don’t really know what I did with that week’s veggies, either. 

I guess it’s getting to the point where I’m seeing some of the same things (which is great, because I’ve liked them all!), but I’m also repeating the same recipes (because I’ve found the way I like to prepare those veggies!).  So there isn’t much to say about that, really… soup, roasted, stir-fried… whatever it is…

With Week #19, I didn’t do much differently at all.  I took all of the veggies and chopped/sliced them quickly – because I have no time to do anything else! – and dropped them into a pot with pork strips and just stirred it all around then added frozen udon.  I’m not posting a recipe because I’m not satisfied with the results.  Maybe one day, but that day is not today. 

Also, the combination of veggies I used was just not quite right.  I’ll fix it… eventually.  For now, I’ll stick to udon in soup, since I can make those and make them well.  Hahahah.  (I have a TON of trouble with Asian noodle dishes that aren’t in soup; it just isn’t my forte.) 

Hopefully I’ll have a better post for next week, but at this time, I cannot guarantee such!

Happy eating!