CSA Week 2: Salad It Up!


We’re just about to officially enter summer.  But I don’t really think of seasons as fall, winter, spring or summer; I think of them in terms of food…tomato season is my fav! But right now, it’s salad season!  I’ve been making salads almost everyday with the drop-dead gorgeous veg from my CSA box and from the local farmers markets.  I posted the recipe for this Orange Sesame Noodle Salad over at the Laughing Stalk Farmstead Blog, but thought I’d share it here as well.  It uses a ton of veggies and the beets color the noodles a lovely shade of pink.  Tres girlie!
Next is a simple salad of lettuce greens, radishes, turnips, kohlrabi and pecans with a chimichurri vinaigrette.  I used the leftover chimichurri sauce from the spinach quesadillas post and turned it into salad dressing by adding more olive oil and red wine vinegar to thin it out.  Uh-dic-ting!  I stood at the counter and ate the whole bowl!

CSA Week 1: Spinach Quesadillas with Chimichurri Sauce

I’m pumped.  So very pumped.  CSA season just started back up and my little veg head is exploding with organic veggie excitement!  I may be slightly odd in that I’d much prefer to open a box of veggies than unwrap a birthday present…um, unless that birthday present IS a box veggies…and maybe it includes a bottle of gin, and some aged balsamic vinegar, or some smoked sea salt or fancy dutch-processed cocoa powder, or several jars of my grandma’s homegrown, canned tomato juice that I would totally use to make killer Bloody Marys with…whoa, settle down.  Hmm, I wonder if you can register for organic veggies as a wedding gift.  I’m already married, buuuuut….how freakin cool would that be to have one of those gift registry guns that you could take to a farm.  I’d go nuts with the kale.  Yeah, forget engraved towels…give me kale and tomatoes!

I digress.  So, after some crazy weather, Laughing Stalk Farmstead is back to delivering me a beautiful box of fresh, organic fruits and veggies every other week!  They started with a couple special deliveries of strawberries and rhubarb, but the full-on seasonal eating adventure has officially begun with a box that packs a powerful superfood punch…it’s a mean green veggie machine!