Here’s the produce share that was offered on Friday, 26 March 2010, for the CSA $-subscribers, land-lenders, Friends-of-the-Farm, etc. Pretty good spread for being so close to “the Hunger Gap” of mid-Spring. Flavors include sweet (pea shoots), spicy (various mustards), bitter (chicory), and nutritive (nettles).
The spread, as offered at The Firepit [...]
Robin, a CSA subscriber, sent in this photograph of a pea shoot salad with walnuts and hard-boiled eggs.
Pea Shoots! They are a treat. At this time of year I’ll put anything green in a salad, and fancy restaurants agree with me when it comes to pea shoots. They are great in a salad–sweet and tender and pretty too. They are also delicious stir-fried very briefly with a little salt, garlic, and sesame [...]
These are from the cover crop growing at the Hampton acreage in Milwaukie, where the quinoa grew in 2008. These are Austrian field peas, grown as a nitrogen-fixing cover, or for soup peas. Super sweet and delicious!
These will be inlcuded in Monday’s CSA share, along with baby rainbow carrots, also super sweet. Like candy, the [...]