Local food, made at home

It's been FOREVER since I last wrote. I don't know where the time goes. like seriously.

I recently signed up for a CSA from Red Fire Farm in Granby, MA (no idea where that is). For those who don't know, CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. So anyway, I pick up my share every week near my house. It started two weeks ago and goes until the fall. I'm sharing it with my friend Biz. We get one veggie share, one egg share (6 eggs) and one fruit share (just for me). She tried to talk me out of the fruit share, but I love fruit, so f her.

I'm going to try to blog once a week and share what I got and what I made and how I feel about it. OK? Great. As a side note, I'm also growing basil, rosemary, mint, strawberries and tomatoes so since they count in this "local" thing, I will include them when I use them. Here we go:

Before the CSA started:
Caprese salad with fresh basil
Pasta with fresh basil
Whiskey smash with fresh mint AND homemade simple syrup (it's just bourbon, lemon juice, crushed ice, simple syrup and mint and sooooo good)
Mint Julep with fresh mint
Ice cream sundae with fresh mint

week 1 (I was not here. but luckily, they didn't have enough eggs and fruit, so we got double in week 2!)

week 2:

Includes: 6 eggs, 2 quarts of strawberries, 1 kohlrabi, 3 beets, 2 carrots, kale, a head of lettuce, spinach, garlic snapes, and oregano

Made:
Roasted beets, kohlrabi and carrots with fresh rosemary, olive oil and garlic

Two spinach and lettuce salads with fresh egg and the roasted veggies (plus some other "store bought" veggies) and store bought goat cheese. enough for two people to eat twice. dressing was either store bought or olive oil and vinegar. The salad really hit the spot especially since it has been H-O-T. The kohlrabi, unheard of before this adventure, was actually quite tasty. Like most root veggies but also kinda like a broccoli stem.

Pesto with the garlic snapes. I didn't have pine or walnuts so just made with what I had: olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper, snapes, parmesian all in the food processor. It was quite garlicky but still very tasty. It probably needed the nuts.

Strawberry scones with all the strawberries. They were the only fresh ingredient so it's not worth telling you about all the others. They were tasty but wet because of the fresh strawberries. I might be inclined to use dry or dry them more next time.

Blueberry muffins. The only CSA ingredient I used here were the eggs. But these might be the best muffins I have ever had. Mostly because of the sugar, butter crack sprinkled on the top. yeah.

I still have some strawberries, eggs and kale left. I will finish the strawberries throughout the week on cereal or as a snack. The eggs might go in another salad or for breakfast one day. Or maybe an egg salad sandwich. The possibilities are endless with eggs!

You will notice I left out the kale. Isn't it a garnish? I suppose I could get some salmon and sautee the kale for a side or something. But meh. Who likes kale?