Agretti: gone! It all went into the yummy lemon-y fettuccine recipe I posted about last week. Loved.
Chinese Purple Garlic: still hanging on to both heads. Thankfully, garlic lasts for ages so it's not going anywhere.
Green Kale: not quite gone, but it's all been used. I was happy to have the chance to repeat the Kale & Quinoa Salad that we tried back in Week 3, and it was great have along for a picnic with friends last Friday night. We're still working through the leftovers.
8-Ball Zucchini: of the six squash we received last week, 2 went into this favorite blueberry zucchini bread recipe. The other four have been worked into our Week 10 meal plan (finished them off last night!), so I'll try to mention how we used them sometime in the coming week. Bottom line: I love zucchini and am working to make up for years of avoiding it as a kid.
Red Cherry Tomatoes: like the zucchini, these have all become a part of our Week 10 meal plan, so more to come on how they got used.
Red Beets: these are sitting untouched in the fridge (sheepish grin) ... Part of the problem is that right now we are consistently getting more produce than we can reasonably consume in a week. When that's the case it is easy to focus on the stuff we're excited about, like kale and blueberries, and ignore the produce that we find daunting. Hence, our beet situation. I'll let you know if anything changes.
Bicolor Sweet Corn: gone! We used two ears last week to make the Zucchini Corn pancakes. The rest has gone into our Week 10 meal plan, so I'll get to that info later in the week.
Peaches: gone! I had one or two by themselves last week. The rest went into the Tomato Peach Salad we made last week, which was perfect: since they weren't in the best shape from the start, we could cut out the rough spots and use what was left in that dish.
Pint of Blueberries: gone! Those that weren't munched by Steve for breakfasts went into the blueberry zucchini bread (link to recipe above).
Jar of Blueberry Jam: we haven't cracked it open yet, but I'm eager to. I think a good loaf of fresh bread needs to be obtained first.
Chicken Breasts and Whole Leg: I am making my poor husband crazy with our growing chicken problem. At this point in time, our freezer is almost full with various cuts of chicken. And we didn't use any of it this week! It's a meal planning challenge right now: we're getting so much produce and it always feels more urgent to me that we use what we can of that before it goes bad. So when I can write out a week's worth of meals and still not manage to include all the fruits and veggies we got, it feels even less economical to be using chicken in place of some of those other dishes, when it can just stay frozen until we have use for it. If we had a second freezer I wouldn't be worried about this at all. But as it stands, we're working on it.
Week 9 Links
Zucchini Corn Pancakes
Fettuccine with Agretti
Tomato Peach Salad
The CSA stops for no woman, so I'll of course be back tomorrow with our Week 10 delivery list. Onward!
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