Thursday was my first CSA box. Wednesday my first night of writing recipes. So far so good. The only one from this year that I’ve added to my new recipes blog so far is this master recipe for veggie quiche<\/a>. I will keep adding them to the CSA box category as the summer goes on, though. Oh, looks like I already told you that on Memorial Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n What did I make with CSA veggies? The first night we had whole wheat and Swiss and mushroom and spinach wraps.<\/p>\n On Friday I made pork chop carnitas – man they’re good – slow cooked meat. I shredded it and we had tacos with salsa that included radishes from the box, and red onion and jarred jalape\u00f1os from the store.<\/p>\n At some point, I think Friday, I made pickled rhubarb<\/a> using green garlic and a couple of stalks of rhubarb, that no one will eat but me. Turns out you have to slice the rhubarb pretty thin or it’s unpleasantly fiber-y. I made some of the drained off vinegar, dyed a pretty color by the rhubarb and seasoned with whole cloves, the green garlic, salt & sugar,\u00a0 into salad dressing and that’s been more popular. I also made rhubarb custard coffee cake<\/a> on Sunday morning, but the pic I took Sunday isn’t as nice as the one in the recipe so go look there. Finally Monday night I used the last 1\/2 pound of rhubarb to make this rhubarb chia seed jam<\/a>. I think\/hope the chia seeds will soften more – they seemed a bit crunchy when I took it off the stove. I think I will put it in Victoria Sponge, maybe this Nigella recipe<\/a>, or maybe my own<\/a>, that’s adapted from the Afternoon Tea Book<\/a>.<\/p>\n What else … let’s look at pictures to try to remember.<\/p>\n Friday banana bites for breakfast<\/p><\/div>\n Nigella Lawson’s rocky road bars. An Insta hit<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n 4-day old cow at Cows on the Concourse. It was grey and a bit rainy so it was miraculously un-crowded for Cows. We went early so I’m sure that helped but it meant they hadn’t started making the grilled cheese sandwiches yet.<\/p><\/div>\n Deep dish pizza on Saturday night. Spinach and mushrooms from CSA; sausage from Curious Farmer; canned tomatoes and cheese from the grocery store. King Arthur recipe<\/a> worked great – the only thing I did differently was they suggest un-molding your pizzas onto a rack, and I thought would make a sauce mess so I used a pizza pan, then flipped it back onto to a cutting board to slice. And I used premixed sausage instead of adding seasoning to plain ground pork as suggested in the recipe – I did add some extra fennel seed and paprika, and intended to sprinkle in some hot pepper fakes and forgot.<\/p><\/div>\n Saut\u00e9ed asparagus Sunday morning<\/p><\/div>\n In eggs, also Sunday morning<\/p><\/div>\n What else … I got my extra booster\/4th shot on Thursday, too. No real noticeable side effects except I’m tired, but I’m always tired because I sleep for shit – wake up every two hours, although earlier in the week – I think Tuesday & Wednesday, both, maybe?\u00a0 – I had some four hour stretches. Thursday was particularly bad; I was awake from 2:00-4:30\/5:00ish fretting about work. Or maybe that was the booster.<\/p>\n Friday was a beautiful June day. Of course I was inside most of it, but got out for a short bike ride in the late afternoon before dinner.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/MemorialDay22tulips.jpg\")
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