Quick CSA List

This is what "Bob" grabbed from the CSA on Thursday: 2 lbs. potatoes, one bunch of celery, one tomato, handful of oregano stems, two parsnips, four onions, two squash, three small eggplants, and some strange greens (not collard or mustard). I threw the greens in the composter because they already wilted to nearly nothing.

We'll be making beet and carrot salad this weekend (we bought beets at the supermarket last weekend).

Beef: It's What Was for Dinner

We had the stir-fried beef recipe I found on Cooks.com. The mustard greens, if that's what they were, wilted down to nothing. We opted for chicken stock since we had that on hand and used garlic scapes (keeping them in a brown paper bag in the refrigerator really worked; we only have two left now) instead of garlic. It was a good recipe but not amazing. It could stand a few tweaks. The beef was cooked too long and the flavor was a bit flat, a little too "one note." I think a bit of pepper (perhaps flakes) would probably be a nice addition. A bit more sugar, or even brown sugar, would be worth a try too. I'm sure more mustard greens or something similar is in our future so we'll likely have another shot at this recipe.

Note: We'll be updating throughout the week the nutritional information for the recipes we've posted.