Local Food 6/4/2010

This is the third week of the CSA and I did not do a good job of asking what everything was.  Oops.  While I’ve had everything in the box before, I’m pretty bad at telling the difference between various greens.  I believe that I’ve got a bag of mustard greens, a bag of kale, and broccoli rabe. These all look the same to me which could prove festive. Thankfully I can recognize the salad greens that I got!  There are some radishes hiding in front of the salad greens, a bunch of green onions, turnips, garlic scapes (!!), and some bean things which I think might be peas in their pods.  Again, I should have asked.  I also got a nice bunch of dill and lemon basil.

Elsewhere at the market I added a bit more colour to my haul.  I got a few more garlic scapes from my CSA farmer, as well as a green garlic, some larger green onions and eggs.  I picked up Swiss chard and pecans (!!) from another farmer.  More strawberry jam since the jam we had last week was so amazing and chunky and not super sweet at all.  I got cucumbers and pattypan squash from a fourth farmer – I have dreams of gazpacho.  I got even more green garlic from a fifth farmer.  I’m so thrilled that two farmers are now getting into garlic at the market!  Maybe I won’t need to stock up in Pennsylvania at all next year!  I also got a package of sweet sausage from the meat farmer because I used up the last package during the week to make Pasta with Sausage, Basil and Sundried Tomatoes. 

I bought a jar of body butter from The Eden Company!  I’ve been loving the body mousse I picked up last week and, after talking with Ronda, decided to give the butter a try on my lips which get extremely dried out every winter.  I believe that the butter is lemongrass and grapefruit which certainly sounds like it would be lovely on my lips! 

I also bought a number of herbs for my little garden of herb pots, I hope to get them planted later today.  I got quite a few basil plants, since those worked the best last year.  I’ve also got some oregano, sage, cilantro and parsley.  Here’s hoping I can keep us in a few herbs again this summer.  I’ll try to fill out the rest of the pots next weekend or the week after.

As a sign that Southern Maryland is improving every day, we’ve now got a new market on Friday evenings.  Friday isn’t a super convenient day for us to go out to the market, and we do love our Saturday market, but we decided to check out the Friday market yesterday just to see what was there.  While most of the farmers are the same, there was a farm selling baked goods and another selling hydroponic lettuces.  Art and I got two mini loaves of bread and a shoefly pie (which, sadly, weren’t very good), some granola, a handful of nice little greenhouse tomatoes, a kohlrabi and red raspberries.  I also got some all natural bug repellant, since bugs love me, and some arnica massage oil which is amazing stuff for aches and pains. 

And now I’ve just got to figure out what to do with all of it!