random news

First, and most important, my brother asked his girlfriend to marry him on our anniversary (last Saturday) while they were in southern France visiting my father who is still not home -- August 4th is supposed to be his arrival date. I'm thrilled for my little brother and can't believe he's growing up even though he's only two years younger than me. Congratulations, little brother.

Second, we bought a full share of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) that we are splitting with friends of ours. The way it works is we paid an established amount for 10 items every week for 22 weeks, June through November. We don't have a say in what we get, what ever is being harvested that week is what we get. The farmer brings our share to the farmer's market at City Hall every Wednesday and one of us picks it up. Then we divide it and start cooking so as not to waste any of our organic and thus quickly wilting greens.

The first two weeks our share included garlic scapes, which are amazing. Sometimes they're called green garlic. I should have taken a picture of them, but I didn't so if you're really interested in their unique shape you should Image Google garlic scape and see for yourself. I made pesto with it the first two weeks. I was incredibly tasty. I could eat it all day long. The recipe has four ingredients: scape, olive oil, parmesan cheese, lime juice. We didn't get any this week.

This week our share consisted of: red mustard greens, kale, bok choy, zucchini, arugula, baby greens, a head of leafy lettuce, a lemon basil plant, radishes and two different kinds of cherries (light and dark red). I sauteed the kale, mustard greens, radishes and their greens, onions and garlic. Then made a fritatta with half of the mixture and saved the other half for something else later in the week. I stir fried the bok choy and zucchini with tofu, onion and some sesame ginger sauce and served it over rice last night for dinner. I also made arugula pesto (I'm big into the food processor this summer) for spreading on crackers or putting on pasta. The baby greens have been the bulk of salads I've eaten for lunch yesterday and today.

I guess that's all the news, an engagement and way too many details about our CSA produce.