Local Food 5/22/2010

Yay!  This week is the first week of the CSA! 

I was out of town, so Art picked up the box and also took a picture for me.  It looks like we got a dozen beautiful eggs, some red and white green onions, a bag of mixed greens, radishes, turnips and.. a bag that we believe is full of huge cabbage leaves.  It smells like cabbage at least, so I’m betting that’s what we’ve got.  It looks like the Jersey Wakefield Cabbage we got last year so it seems like a safe bet.  There is also a pretty bunch of parsley.

I’m not sure what I’m going to use everything for, but I had some amazing scrambled eggs while I was out of town that were made with fresh parsley and goat cheese, so I’m betting at least some of the parsley will be going into scrambled eggs. I suppose we’ll also be having lots and lots of salad. 

I also did some shopping while I was in West Chester with my parents.  I went to their local Growers Market and filled up 3-4 bags with loot.  We also stopped by Taste of Olive, Éclat Chocolate, and Pete’s Produce.  This picture has everything I picked up, although some of the items are a bit hard to see. 

From the market: garlic chives, green onions, three huge fragrant bunches of basil, radishes, a 2 pound loaf of sourdough bread, a baggie of dried morels (WOW), two containers of brebis (which is the sheep milk equivalent of chevre cheese), and a container of sheep feta. 

From Taste of Olive: basil olive oil, sweet lemon olive oil, wild mushroom and sage olive oil (which is insane), and a refill of my original bottle of garlic olive oil.  Then I picked up bottles of pomegranate balsamic vinegar, peach balsamic vinegar, and golden pineapple balsamic vinegar. 

From Éclat: I picked up a 12-piece box for each of us as well as two containers of mendiants.  This chocolate is simply amazing. Sadly my favorite chocolates, the pave de tour, are only made in the fall and winter. 

From Pete’s Produce: bumper stickers for our cars to promote local eating, garlic scapes, cherry tomatoes, salsa verde, stone ground corn meal and local red wheat flour. 

My drive home was very fragrant and I can’t wait to try everything out.  It’s always great to have access to things I don’t often see at home.  This will be a delicious week indeed, as soon as I figure out what I’ll be cooking.