The Farmer in the Dell

Tragic Sandwich

Baguette’s day care has become a delivery point for a CSA program. For those of you not familiar with CSA programs, they’re basically a way to get food from local farmers without all that aggravating hassle of going to the farmers’ market.

(We actually live quite close to a very nice farmers’ market. I used to go every week. Then Baguette started eating produce in the grocery store, and I can’t inflict that on farmers.)

This farm delivers every other week and offers a few different options. I opted to get 1/2 of a “Family Box”, because it seemed like a good way to test the waters . . . er . . . produce. After all, I don’t want to find yet another way to pay for food that we don’t eat. There’s too much of that going around already.

This week was our first delivery. What did we get?

  • carrots
  • zucchini
  • kale
  • peas
  • lemon
  • oranges
  • tangerines
  • apples
  • avocados

All well and good, but what does that look like?

CSA box #1

I started off by eating an apple, because that’s easy. It takes no creativity or skill to eat an apple.

Then I upped my game a bit to have a kale smoothie. Kale, apple juice, fresh lemon juice, and honey, with a few ice cubes.

It was pretty tasty, but I don’t think my blender is optimized for kale. I’d drink (well, really, guzzle, because I’m able to eat dinner at exactly the point in the evening when Baguette insists on me holding her) some of it and then after a moment realize that I now had a mouthful of minced kale. Which needed to be chewed.

Mr. Sandwich checked out the box o’ food and said, “Let’s have carrots and peas tomorrow night. I’ll make fish, if that’s okay.”

I think that’ll be just fine.

8 thoughts on “The Farmer in the Dell”

    1. I didn’t cook for a long time and am having a slow re-entry. The thing I like about this is that I feel like I have to use what we get. So hopefully it won’t go to waste, and I think it’ll keep me from getting into a rut.

      I’m pretty good about eating fruit, but I definitely need more vegetables–I’m hoping these deliveries will help with that!

  2. We just sent our CSA form in last night! I am so excited for our first delivery – doesn’t start until late May for us, though. Can’t wait to see more of your goodies and what you do with them!

    1. We’re down to zucchini and a bunch of citrus. I’m sad I have to wait another week and a half!

    1. I’m not willing to invest in a juicer. Among other things, I’m not sure where I’d put it.

  4. I miss getting my weekly produce box! We ate so much better when someone did my grocery shopping for me. 🙁

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