Poll Closed, New CSA

[lydamorehouse]

You can still tell me what you'd like me to watch next in the comments, but I went ahead and closed the poll as we have a clear winner. I will be watching "Star Trek: Picard" next. As it happens, it was where I was leaning anyway?

This week's CSA:


Image: artfully arranged veggies on the table

What I got was:

Carrots
Green onions
Torpedo Onions
Zucchini (yellow)
Potatoes
Dill flowers
Green Cabbage
Cherry Tomatoes
Pickling Cucumbers
... and Water Spinach (or as wikipedia tells us: ipomoea aquatica, "also known as river spinach, water morning glory, water convolvulus, or by the more ambiguous names Chinese spinach, Chinese watercress, Chinese convolvulus or swamp cabbage, or kangkong in Southeast Asia and ong choy in Cantonese." My Hmong Farmers call it 'on choy,' without the 'g.' It is also known as: 空心菜 "the hollow heart vegetable"--thanks, jiawen, who also tells me that it is delicious)

Once you know all of its names, the numbers of recipes that pop up with water spinach as an ingredient are LEGION. I am thinking about either a tofu recipe with them or a pork one that I found last night, while doing research in anticipation of getting these. I certainly got a generous enough pile that I should be able to try out a number of different options. Will post the results of course.

I continue to be really happy with this CSA. I already have someone who will take the tomatoes off my hands, so that's good. But, mostly, everything that has come I have eaten or am willing to try to eat.  

We also got a really lovely bouquet as this week's flower share:


Sunflowers and other happy flowers in a vase.

Comments

[spiderplanet]

Those are indeed some happy flowers. I think that sunflower might be so happy as to be a tiny bit prideful. :)

[lydamorehouse]

A tiny bit. For sure. :-)

[ryanf]

those veggies look fabulous

[lydamorehouse]

I just ate a bunch of them with dinner! I also made some refrigerator pickles.

Thanks!

A flower share is a charming idea.

[minnehaha]

I was counting the time of the pandemic in bouquets on the dining room table. It is at 4 or 5, so I've clearly lost count. But I am careful about changing water and flower food and all that, so the bouquets last a good awhile. The current bouquet on the dining room table was give us on 3 July and so 20 days of cheerful flowers is pretty good!

Around my yard, I collect flowers into the OK Bouquet and put that in a jelly jar on the counter. These do not last as long as the store flowers and I don't understand why not. These literally could not be fresher.

K.