CSA Day 8: Broccoli “taco”

January 25, 2008 – 6:43 am

Yesterday was one of those “eat everything we have in the fridge before leaving for the weekend” days. In the fridge: Half a cup of leftover steamed broccoli from our produce box. Also, fixings for salad, but I wasn’t in a salad mood. I scrounged a soft corn tortilla leftover from our Tuesday church small [...]

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CSA Day 3: Spinach, salad, and salmon

January 20, 2008 – 2:29 pm

Day 2 passed with more mandarin oranges and the last Pink Lady apple. Saturday night, I made a late dinner with more goodies from our Eatwell Farm box.
First, I spent half an hour rinsing off the polar bear spinach. Here’s a close-up picture of what I was working with:

I found it best to tear off [...]

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CSA Day 1: Free-range egg omelet and delicious fruit

January 18, 2008 – 2:35 am

Yesterday morning I eagerly cracked open our first free-range egg from Eatwell Farm. The chickens on Eatwell Farm are pasture-raised, which means that they can graze freely on bugs and run around happily.
I’d read that free-range eggs are supposed to be more brightly colored and have more nutrients than conventional eggs. So I have to [...]

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