The Farmshare Project: Week 2

I know you're excited that I decided to keep on with this project after one week rather than abandon it for something more riveting like counting the number of beans currently germinating in the veg beds (8), so it's no use trying to hold it in - I see you clasping your bosoms.

Freak.

Plus, what kind of farmshare shill would I be if I didn't properly extol the virtues of beets as a healthy swap for oil in cake?

A shitty one, that's what.

Anyway, let's talk this week's farmshare.

A lot of stuff came bagged and I didn't feel like unbagging it. These things happen.

Last week's box had:

Apples

Artichokes
Arugula
Mizuna
Baby mei qing choi
Tatsoi
Red beets
Broccoli

Chard
Collard greens
Green garlic
Leeks
Bagged baby red/green oakleaf lettuce
French breakfast radishes
Red radishes
Strawberries 

And their fate was:

We ate them

Apples: with honey for dessert

Artichokes: As a sidedish, boiled with aoili

Mizuna: In Citrus Salad
Baby mei qing choi: In chicken salad

Red beets: In Chocolate Beet Cake
Broccoli: Roasted in this pasta dish

Green garlic: In chicken salad

Bagged baby red/green oakleaf lettuce: As a simple salad with olive oil and salt

Strawberries: In a smoothie (Blend a handful of hulled frozen strawberries with 1/2 cup of milk, 1 T vanilla whey, 1 T ground flax seed, 1 T mesquite honey)

We stored them

Leeks

French breakfast radishes
Red radishes

We composted them 
Arugula

Tatsoi

Chard
Collard greens

Note to self: remind neighbors that we don't want chard or collards so we should all hold hands and agree to put that crap in the donation bin at the pick-up site rather than bringing it home to stuff guiltily into the composter. 


And when I say, "crap", I mean "stuff that I don't like but other people seem to", so it's not like I'm giving crap to charity because that would be rude. It's not like I'm one of those people that donates dirty underwear to the Goodwill even though I've seen firsthand evidence that people like that are out there YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE and ew.


But, as far as the rest of the share went last week, I feel pretty good about our progress. We had some pretty decent Mass Murder Menus, nothing went to waste, technically speaking, and we now have enough of some stored stuff from the last two weeks so that I can make some dinner favorites this coming week. 


Which is where the Farmshare Skillz come in - knowing what to store and for how long so that you have enough to make something that everyone likes. 


If you already thought, "Rutabaga Mash!", then you are right! You're also something of a mind-reader because I'm not sure how many people would put that all together since I don't seem to know a single soul, beyond our farmshare-splitting neighbors, who can even identify a rutabaga in the wild.


Get on that, folks. They look like this. And next week I'll give you a recipe for turning them into a very edible mashed potato-like side dish that even picky-ass kids/husbands/dinner guests will probably like. 


Which is good, because they take up a lot of storage space and if you leave them alone for too long I think they either multiple in alarming numbers or turn into Gremlins.