CSA, Week Nine... Melon!
Aug. 20th, 2020 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

Image: a bounty spread out on my dining room table (enumerated below.)
This week's CSA has several exciting things. First off, we got, as you can see: cabbage (napa), carrots, corn, collard greens, eggplants (Thai), melon (sun jewel*), onions, radishes, and potatoes.
So, the sun jewel melon... it is listed in Wikipedia as "oriental melon,' but it is also known as 黄金瓜 / huángjīn guā in Chinese, 참외 / chamoe in Korean, and 真桑瓜 / makuwa uri in Japanese. i am incredibly excited to try this melon. I suspect it's going to be part of (or all of) dessert tonight. According to the Wikipedia article I linked to, the makuwa uri was once so popular in Japan that its name became synonymous for ANY melon.
The Thai eggplants are also a new-to-me vegetable that I'm going to have to hunt down some recipes for. Just wandering through the Googles leads me to a lot of curry options, so I'm excited about that. Apparently, I can eat these raw? I'm going to have to try that!
Anyone else finding interesting things in their CSA boxes? At the farmer's markets? In their backyards?