Winter CSA 2

The day hath arriven! Deceased English-types roll over in their graves and bellies rumble with anticipation.
This week's share includes:

2 cartons of eggs
delicata squash
fingerling and russet potatoes
black beans (at least I think they're black; I haven't cracked them open yet)
beets
sunchokes
sweet potatoes
carrots
onions (spanish and red)
edit: not scallions, baby leeks! Baby leeks!
alfalfa sprouts

Omnomnomnomnom.

Avocado Love

I usually buy one avocado a week. I buy it green and unripe and set it on the kitchen counter so it can do its thing. Days pass. The avocado starts to approach it's optimal eating point and I anticipate the deliciousness. Then, oh joy of joys, the day arrives! The avocado is ripe and beautiful!

I slice it open.

Slice it up.

Bagel, tofutti cream cheese, avocado, sea salt, pepper. Simple, delivious and so fresh tasting. Avocados just make me happy.

Orange belly

If you are what you eat, I'm pretty sure I've turned a bright shade of orange, considering what I spent the week cooking and then stuffing myself with. Most of this stuff was made with ingredients from the KEG farmshare, so all in all I'm feeling pretty downtown-elitist-smug-orange.

Homemade soup stock...Which was turned into carrot soup (carrots, onions, celery, thai red curry spice), served with some homemade bread - courtesy of the easy ol' bread machine.Then, squash risotto (kombucha squash, onions, parmesan, parsley, stock)!Both the carrot soup and the risotto were cooked in our new fancy shmancy dutch oven. Which I love with all my orange heart.Then this weekend, we went over to LJ and CB's place to make some homemade pierogi from the Rebar recipe. They were... amazingballs. Yam filling with leeks, scallions, and smoked gouda (which gives it a nice bacon-like flavour):Eddy rollin' out the dough with our pasta maker:Dough circles stamped out with love by L and C:Adorably finished (but unboiled) products!May you all be as happy and orange as me and mine were this week.

Winter CSA 1

Inspired by my good pal JE, I've decided to ease myself back into this p-flog thing by keeping track of our winter CSA from Kawartha Ecological Growers. This week's delivery contains:
2 cartons of eggs
butternut squash
kombucha squash
dried bunch of oregano
kosher dill pickles
buttload of onions (cooking and spanish)
carrots
kale
red chieftain potatoes
garlic
celeriac

On the menu so far:
Breakfast for dinner! (hashbrowns and eggs)
Potato, celeriac, and kale soup
Winter squash lasagna

Give me some more cookin' suggestions, if you please.

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