We got our first CSA share last Wednesday. There's turnips, beets, spring onions, chard, two kinds of kale, lettuce, cilantro and basil. Reading it, that doesn't sound like much, but it filled more than half of a large sized ice chest. I had to rearrange the contents of the fridge to get it to fit!
We already had peaches, apricots, Brussels sprouts, beets, carrots, purple cabbage and a variety of greens from a U-pick farm we visited a few weeks ago. My son has been eating the apricots now that they're in the fruit drawer instead of the paper bag they came in, on a higher shelf in the fridge. He'll also eat the peaches if I'll keep some in the house (we have a 2nd fridge outside to hold milk and eggs).
In addition to all of that we're members of a produce rescue program that provides up to 60 pounds of produce weekly. There's tomatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, cucumbers, grapefruit, peppers (hot and sweet), and melons.
Then my wonderful husband brought home baskets of strawberries and blackberries from a produce market in the Big City. He's going to make pies for a gathering we're going to this week. Don't forget the mulberry tree that's going crazy with fruit. Or the food co-op where I buy frozen berries once a month, along with a supply of onions and potatoes, celery and oranges when the price is good. I even bought a coconut last month. Hubby has also made friends with the clerk at Circle K who gives him bags of overripe bananas every week.
If you have ideas for using it up, please share! I've got a pot of this simmering in the slow cooker right now.
I also made kale chips, a turnip green frittata, marinated tomato salad and have a perpetual garden salad bowl in the fridge.
Stephanie at Keeper of the Home is hosting an Eat From the Pantry challenge. I think I need to join!
