This Week's Bounty

Came home from work today to a box of: 2 oranges, 2 tangerines, 2 apples, a lemon, pint of strawberries, 4 potatoes, red chard, asparagus, cauliflower, 2 small artichokes, and leaf lettuce. I'm going to start taking pictures of everything next delivery as it sure does look lovely all laid out when I unpack the box.

Broccoli and Cauliflower Au Gratin

I have been wanting to make this dish again and finally did when I got a head of cauliflower in my CSA box. Here it is in all it's cheesy bread crumby goodness.

And this would be the first of two servings I helped myself too. So tasty, but yea, kinda rich.

This Week's Box

Today brought my second CSA box since rejoining. Love coming home to it on my doorstep! This week's box consisted of: couple of apples, couple of oranges, couple of tangerines, a lemon, carrots, celery, green leaf lettuce, red chard, collard greens, cauliflower and flat leaf parsley. The parsley was a replacement item for red beets (not a fan).

I'll be making salads and picked up some extra fixings to go along with the lettuce, celery & carrots. Got some more potatoes to make my medley of greens again with the chard & collard greens and I will make that yummy gratin with the cauliflower. Of course, I still have quite a bit of the Chard & White Bean Soup I made the other day so I'll probably make salads to go with that and try to eat the rest in the next couple of days and try not to end up with a bunch of different leftovers. Though that gratin has been sounding pretty good for a couple of weeks now!

Chard and White Bean Soup

Finally made this soup tonight; have been wanting to ever since the recipe came in my CSA box last week. It was simple to throw together and tasted good. Just chard stems & leaves, white beans, garlic, broth and salt & pepper with some Parmesan thrown in at the last minute.


And yes, I did top it with a little extra cheese. :-)


It should keep well so I'll be set until I get my next produce delivery on Tuesday. I did good with this last box; just the turnip went bad (because I forgot I had it) and a little of the leaf lettuce wilted, no biggie. Looking forward to more greens and fruit along with some cauliflower I plan to make that gratin with.

CSA!

So, thanks to my tax return, I am caught up financially and was able to restart my CSA service this week. Yay! I received: kale, chard, leaf lettuce, broccoli, onions, oranges, a tangelo, apples, & a pear.

Tonight I made a Medley of Greens with Potatoes and Leeks. Just as delicious as I remembered. I used fingerling potatoes and it was actually a medley this time since I used both kale and chard! Ate two servings and put the rest up for tomorrow.

I plan on using the broccoli in Broccoli and Cauliflower Au Gratin.

Might grab a bell pepper and whip up some fajitas to use the onions. Can chop up some lettuce for that plus make a salad or two.