{"id":2608,"date":"2017-10-15T19:24:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T00:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2017-10-16T06:54:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T11:54:04","slug":"three-csa-boxes-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/15\/three-csa-boxes-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Three CSA boxes in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I normally get my CSA veggie box every other week, but because of rescheduling for TIFF, I got three in a row: Sept. 21 and 28, and October 5.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;re the veggie lists, courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipiproduce.com\/\">Tipi Produce<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 21<\/strong><br \/>\nGolden beets with greens, 1 bunch<br \/>\nBroccoli, 1 or 2 nice heads<br \/>\nWinter squash, 1 medium or 2 small, see notes<br \/>\nTomatoes, slicing, ~2 lb<br \/>\nTomatoes, plum, ~2 lb<br \/>\n<em>(Both types are in one paper bag.)<br \/>\n<\/em>Carrots, 2 lb<br \/>\nGreen beans, ~0.7 lb<br \/>\nRed bell peppers, 2<br \/>\nYellow onion<br \/>\nDill, 1 bunch<br \/>\nJalapeno chile (HOT), 1<br \/>\nGarlic<br \/>\nA few sites get an heirloom tomato or a cucumber or some extra beans. <em>I actually got extra broccoli, which was fine by me!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 28<\/strong><br \/>\nCauliflower, 1 large or 2 small<br \/>\nBroccoli, 1 large or 2 small<br \/>\nKoji OR tatsoi greens, 1 head<br \/>\nRed potatoes, 3.5 lb<br \/>\nSlicing tomatoes, 2.2 lb, see note<br \/>\nCarrots, 2 lb<br \/>\nBell peppers, 2<br \/>\nOranos peppers (orange, sweet), 1 or 2<br \/>\nPoblano chiles (mild heat), 3<br \/>\nYellow onion<br \/>\nThai basil<br \/>\nGarlic<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oct. 5<\/strong><br \/>\nGreen cabbage<br \/>\nSweet potatoes, ~2 lb<br \/>\nRomano beans, 1.9 lb<br \/>\nEdamame soybeans, 1 bundle<br \/>\nRed mizuna, 1 bunch<br \/>\nWinter squash, 1 or 2<br \/>\nRed onion<br \/>\nSlicing tomatoes, a few<br \/>\nBell peppers, 2<br \/>\nSome sites get broccoli.<br \/>\nSome sites get cauliflower. <em>I got cauliflower and the cabbage is HUGE, a giant head that weighs 4# all by itself.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>OK, so let&#8217;s see if I can remember where everything went &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rach was here the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/03\/two-weeks-back-from-tiff\/\">week of the 19th<\/a>, and it was hot. I know I made an all veggie dinner the Friday of that week, and there were three of us, me, Mark, and Rach. We had cheesy pasta with a bunch of cheeses left in the fridge &#8211; goat and white cheddar, I think; and then I made a stirfry to go on top of the pasta, with some of the broccoli and green beans and tomato and dill. The dill was a nice frond-y bunch, not seedy like what I&#8217;d expect this late in the year. I also made dill dip and Ovens of Brittany dill mustard sauce with it. The squash were delicata, and I peeled them and cut them into rings, and pan fried them to avoid running the oven. Oh, and the beet greens were really nice &#8211; Rach and I ate the beet greens under our pasta, too.<\/p>\n<p>At the farmers market the next day, I bought shitake mushrooms and corn, and more hard squash. Mark and I had pizza for dinner, 2 kinds: one topped with the shitakes and mozzarella and tomatoes, the other leftover pan fried delicata rings and goat cheese. I haven&#8217;t cooked that extra squash yet &#8211; I intend to make <a href=\"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/recipes\/black-bean-butternut-squash-chili\/\">black bean and squash chili<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n<p>At some point during that first week back from TIFF, I made a rice pilaf with bacon and tomatoes and corn, that was good but a little rich. One of my single girl nights &#8211; maybe Monday of the 2nd week? &#8211; I sauteed the last of the beet greens and some other greens I had, and added the rice &#8211; and I ate some but ended up trashing the rest. Guilt.<\/p>\n<p>What other dishes &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slicing tomatoes went into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tomatotartrev17.jpg\">tomato tarts one Sunday<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>I bought some extra peppers at the farmers market, and made a batch of <a href=\"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/pepperonata-400x400.jpg\">pepperonata<\/a> that&#8217;s in the freezer;<\/li>\n<li>I also have roasted peppers and poblanos in the freezer;<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve got new two batches of veggie broth in the freezer, one featuring the dill stems and corn;<\/li>\n<li>I made cauliflower curry last Friday when I had just gotten back from Minnesota &#8211; I took a little dish of it and heated it in the microwave with a wholewheat pita, and ate it with Greek yogurt and chutney, for one of the best work lunches ever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mark had picked up the October 5 box for me while I was in Minnesota &#8211; some of the more interesting things were orange peppers, Thai basil, and a green called mizuna. Oh, and a bundle of silage, er that is &#8211; edamame on the stem. The mizuna got a little wilted, so I blanched it and put it in with the tatsoi from the week before &#8211; I think we&#8217;ll have some type of gratin of greens with crumbs on top some night, maybe with hot pepper cheese. The edamame were also getting a little yellow, so I cooked them right away, and added some frozen Costco ones. We just ate them on top of other stuff, like the curry or salads or rice, but I ended up ditching the last 1\/2 cup or so today. &nbsp;More guilt. Last Saturday we went to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/smwKR4\">new Bladerunner<\/a>, and I left meatloaf cooking on timer and we ate it with mashed potatoes and roasted broccoli &#8211; that was all the broccoli from the Sept. 21 &amp; 28 boxes. The orange peppers and some of the Thai basil went into the meatloaf. Then on Sunday Belinda &amp; Stephen came for brunch and we had roasted broccoli and ham quiche.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_2591\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2591\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/meatloafsupper.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/meatloafsupper.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/meatloafsupper-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/meatloafsupper-450x450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meatloaf for late Saturday supper<\/p><\/div>Rach and I ate what was left of the broccoli in lunch salads on Monday. This Saturday&nbsp;for dinner we had roasted cauliflower and carrots, with rice cooked in coconut milk (the rest of the can I didn&#8217;t put in the curry), and potato rolls made from the last of the mashed potatoes. Some night last week I made braised romano beans with orange tomatoes and garlic. Yesterday I made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BaPjHe9DGlH\/\">golden beet hummus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_2611\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2611\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/rstcarrotcaulif.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/rstcarrotcaulif.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/rstcarrotcaulif-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/rstcarrotcaulif-450x450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roasted cauliflower &amp; carrots in bad light<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_2612\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2612\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/braisedromano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/braisedromano.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/braisedromano-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/braisedromano-450x450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Braised romano beans in bad light<\/p><\/div>So what&#8217;s left? One red pepper, a big purple onion, and a giant head of cabbage. A few cloves of garlic. About four small sweet potatoes &#8211; one went into the meatloaf hash I made for Sunday brunch along with half a green pepper and a few red skinned potatoes &#8211; almost forgot about that. As above, I have yet to make the squash chili. There&#8217;s still romano beans and cauliflower &amp; carrots and beet hummus to eat.<\/p>\n<p>And, golly, looks like the <a href=\"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/2015\/10\/09\/three-csa-boxes-in-a-row\/\">same thing happened in 2015<\/a>, the last time we went to TIFF. The overleaf is cranberry bars, because, hey, you don&#8217;t have to eat vegetables <em>every<\/em> meal!<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I normally get my CSA veggie box every other week, but because of rescheduling for TIFF, I got three in a row: Sept. 21 and 28, and October 5. Here&#8217;re the veggie lists, courtesy Tipi Produce: Sept. 21 Golden beets with greens, 1 bunch Broccoli, 1 or 2 nice heads Winter squash, 1 medium or &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/15\/three-csa-boxes-in-a-row\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,169],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-ds83473gmail-com","4":"post-2608","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blogpost","9":"post_tag-csa-box","10":"post_tag-tiff17"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}