, on June 10th, 2009 
Hopefully this will be a recurring post here. For those who don’t know, CSA stands for community supported agriculture. Back in February, we signed up for a 2-person vegetable share from the Bull Run Mountain Farm, and finally, the time has come for the vegetables to start arriving. Since this was the first pick-up, I picked up the Bull Run Farm Canvas tote bag, provided with the share, and brought home all our veggies (pictured below).
I got the email this morning with the list of veggies and planned our meals around that list. Because it is early in the season and we’ve had a lot of rain, the share was on the small side this week, but it is expected to improve in the coming weeks. I planned a salad of mixed greens (although mixed greens didn’t end up being in the CSA veggies) with strawberries, avocado, almond slivers, and a lemon/olive oil dressing–that was tonight’s very yummy dinner), a garlic scape pesto (I made this tonight and froze it for later), a stir fry to use the pac choi and veggies we already have at home, and a fresh herb quiche (to be made with our farm fresh eggs also received with our vegetable share).
There are many different CSA farms out there, so if you are interested, it will be too late for this year, but check it out and maybe you can find one next year.
2009.06.10 20:44:43 | 
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I’ve never cooked with garlic scapes – what are they like?
It’s a great way to expand the produce you use to create meals. You’ll eat things you never would have purchased from the supermarket. The menu sounds great!
I tasted the pesto after I made it, and they have the garlic flavor, but not as strong as biting into garlic. Texture wise, their are a bit like the green parts of a scallion.
With two meals down, we’ve learned to cook pak choi longer. We had it in stirfry last night, and it was a bit tough.