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<\/a><\/p>\nsnap peas (x5), radishes, summer squash, turnips, scallions, garlic scapes, kale (x2), head lettuce (x2)<\/p>\n
With the exception of most of the scapes and the 2 summer squash, all of this produce came with us to the Shore. Brian and I were on tap for making dinner with his parents for the nearly 20 extended family members staying in the house with us and it seemed a great opportunity to share our bounty. We provided a kale salad<\/a> and a salad bar with the lettuce, scallions, scapes, snap peas (which were a huge hit), turnips and radishes, as well as tomatoes and cucumbers I picked up at the supermarket before leaving. I was a little concerned about how all of this greenery was going to go over, but everyone seemed to really enjoy it. The leftovers went on to serve as more salads and taco toppings the next day.<\/p>\n Last night I used the summer squash (the only produce in our house besides scapes) to make zucchini pancakes<\/a>. I ended up needing to add about 2 cups of additional flour to get them to turn out, but they were really yummy. The lemon ricotta was definitely the icing on the cake, don\u2019t skip it. <\/p>\n a tomato, shell peas, summer squash, chard, kohlrabi, garlic scapes, turnips, cucumbers, scallions, golden beets, dinosaur kale<\/p>\n Our CSA sends out a weekly newsletter which contains a list of what will be available at the farm. I was so excited to see tomatoes and cucumbers at this week\u2019s pick up; they weren\u2019t on the list and now it really feels like summer. It\u2019s so nice to have a wide variety of produce to choose from.<\/p>\n summer squash\/zucchini:<\/strong> I\u2019m planning to roast whole the tiny yellow squash we got\u2026we\u2019ll see how that works. This zucchini<\/a> bread<\/a> is also on the agenda for this week; I\u2019m planning to eat it for breakfast. Anything remaining will be included in an Asian-style noodle dish I\u2019m improvising with this dressing<\/a>.<\/p>\n tomato:<\/strong> I am incredibly thrilled about this tomato. Off-season tomatoes are not good; I spend 9 months or so of the year looking forward to tomato-time\u2026and it\u2019s here! We were limited to just one this week, but I was impressed with the size and quality of this first batch. This tomato will be part of tonight\u2019s BLTs. The remainder is going straight from the cutting board to my mouth.<\/p>\n garlic scapes:<\/strong> I still have almost all of the scapes from last week, and then I picked up more. If you\u2019re not familiar, scapes are the shoots that come up from the garlic plant as it grows. They\u2019re harvested to keep the nutrients in the plant from going to the scape instead of the bulb. Since farmers kind of want to be rid of them, there have been huge containers of FREE scapes at the farm for the past 2 pick ups. Anyone who knows me knows I\u2019m a sucker for anything labeled \u201cfree\u201d, so I couldn\u2019t help myself. Scapes are delicious and I\u2019ll be chopping them up for salads and eggs, but most of them are going to be turned into pesto. Some of the pesto will be eaten this week, some will go into the freezer.<\/p>\n shell peas\/kohlrabi:<\/strong> mixed into the aforementioned Asian-style noodle dish<\/p>\n shell peas\/turnips\/cucumbers\/beets:<\/strong> It is just occurring to me, as I write this post, that we didn\u2019t end up getting lettuce this week. Brian and I had an exchange at the farm wherein we decided to grab the lettuce last so it wouldn\u2019t get squished. Apparently that never happened. So I was about to type \u201csalad\u201d, but I think it\u2019s going to be more like crudit\u00e9 and roasting for these veggies. That\u2019s fine, there\u2019s plenty of lettuce in our future.<\/p>\n kale:<\/strong> pizza topping, along with red pepper flakes and ricotta cheese<\/p>\n chard:<\/strong> frittata (When in doubt, make eggs!)<\/p>\n Also, I apologize for the lack of photos of the things I\u2019m actually cooking lately. The rest of the summer looks much more predictable than the last two weeks and I\u2019m going to make a serious effort to post more photos of cooked food. In the meantime, follow me on Instagram<\/a> because sometimes that\u2019s as far as my photos get!<\/p>\n What are you cooking this week? What awesome uses for the above vegetables am I missing out on?<\/p>\nToday I picked up:<\/h6>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThe plan:<\/h6>\n