For those of you not interested in fresh produce and the cooking thereof, you may skip down to my latest post on The Geography of Literature.
Although I have enjoyed all of our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) produce since it started for the season on May 12th, this past week’s pick-up really made my eyes light up and my mouth water. It was also the first week of our fruit share.
Besides the usual salads and such, I’ve had a lot of fun playing with the produce this week. I made fava beans with mint that was delicious and made me wish I had gotten more favas. And then yesterday I made a fantastic warm German pototato salad using the new potatoes, the onions, and some of the dill from last week. I used the same dressing to wilt the radicchio. Yummy.
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| Organic unsweetened applesauce, two kinds of lettuce, a bulb of fennel, broccoli, salad greens new pototatoes, fava beans, onions, head of radicchio, mint, cherries.
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I could go for some of that warm potato salad that you made – sounds delicious.
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As a CSA fan, I'm enjoying this little series. My CSA-based recipe yesterday was a Spanish potato omelet that I've made before and absolutely love.
If you had beets as well as fennel, I could share a great beet and fennel salad recipe. I never knew I liked beets until I started working wit fresh ones.
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Oh my gosh, I can't believe you get cherries!! Lucky. :)
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It all looks and sounds delicious! Please educate me, though. What are fava beans? Is that what I see in the picture between the potatoes and onions?
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I would be all over that fennel! Oh, and the cherries. Love community gardens – we don't have fennel though….
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Brenna: It really was delicious if I do say so myself.
Teresa: Spanish potato omelet sounds great. This week we got golden beets. They are beautiful but they are one of the few veggies that I truly don't like. John loves them, however, so I fed them all to him.
Tuulenhaiven: I neither like nor dislike cherries, but they were fun to get. We got more this week this time with blueberries.
Susan: Fava beans are the things in the pods. They are a fairly large broad bean and taste a bit like edamame.
Michele: For some reason I never got to the fennel and I think it may have lost its mojo. Feels a bit rubbery now.
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