CSA box
- 2 small heads lettuce
- 2 small heads cabbage
- 1 regular zucchini
- 1 8-ball zucchini (shaped like an 8-ball!)
- 1 yellow squash
- 1 bag carrots (maybe a pound?)
- 1 bag small slicing onions (a pound?)
- 1 bag cucumbers (maybe 6 or 7--didn't count and we've already eaten some--they're beautiful!)
- 2 small yellow cucumbers (delicious and already gone)
- 1 large bunch basil
Farmer's Market (while we were there picking up our box... we did some more shopping)
- 1 pint sweet yellow cherry tomatoes
- 1 tub local sheep's cheese that is DELICIOUS and kind of like feta
Friend's Bounty
- 3 large zucchini
- 3 mystery squashes (they know the name, but I don't--they look like baby acorn squashes)
Our Garden
- heaps of basil
- cucumber every day or so
- banana peppers every few days
- handful of cherry tomatoes every day or so
- Romas, yellow slicing tomatoes, and red slicing tomatoes beginning to trickle in (if I can keep the squirrels away)
Our menu with all this fresh stuff:
- Pasta with chicken, zucchini, onions, carrots, and homemade pesto, cukes on the side
- Chicken with Tomato Basil sauce, mystery squashes, salad, bread
- Meatless Manicotti with In-a-pinch cucumber salad
- Stir fry with chicken, cabbage, carrots, banana peppers, and onions, Asian cucumber salad on side
- Polenta Squash Casserole, Salad, bread
- Grilled Sausages and Onions, salad or slaw, bread
Lunches:
- Veggie Pita Pockets
- BLT's
- Zucchini Pizzas (I'll post this, too, but here's the Colvins' blog post with video); we'll use some of our cheese on these
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