Dana & Zoe Member Diary - Week of Sept 29

Posted on October 10, 2014 by ryan la chica

My Husband and I have half shares of vegetable, orchard, berry, egg and meat. Below is an example of how we use up all of the goodness!!

Monday night:To tired to cook, so we spent the evening sorting our share and eating leftovers- corn and turkey leg stuffed poblano peppers with tomatillo salsa.

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Tomatillo Recipes from Swift Johnson Share

Posted on October 9, 2014 by ryan la chica

Tomatillos can be a challenge for those not used to cooking with them. Share family Swift Johnson shares their favorite recipes in this Special Tomatillo edition of the Member Diary

Here are a couple of tomatillo recipes!!

Roasted Tomatillo Salsa

Total Time: 15 min

Ingredients

1 1/2 pounds fresh tomatillos
5 fresh serrano chiles
3 garlic cloves, unpeeled
1/2 cup fresh cilantro
1 large onion, coarsely chopped
2 teaspoons coarse salt

Preparation

Preheat broiler.
Remove tomatillo husks and rinse under warm water to remove stickiness. Broil chiles, garlic, and tomatillos on rack of a broiler pan 1 to 2 inches from heat, turning once, until tomatillos are softened and slightly charred, about 7 minutes.
Peel garlic and pull off tops of chiles. Purée all ingredients in a blender.
Salsa can be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered.

Fried Tomatillos

These are SO DELICIOUS as an appetizer. Lemony and fried and super tasty! Great served with marinara or any other sauce for dipping.

Ingredients:

Tomatillos
Flour
Egg
Breadcrumbs or cornmeal
Salt and pepper

Preparation:

Mix salt and pepper into a cup or two of flour
Whisk a couple of eggs
Fill a small bowl or plate with breadcrumbs or cornmeal.
Slice tomatillos into 1/4 inch slices
Dip tomatillo slices in flour on both sides then shake off the excess. Then dip in egg on both sides.
Finally, dip both sides in bread crumbs or cornmeal and fry in vegetable oil.
Eat while hot!

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Wallace Shawn Member Diary - Week of June 23rd

Posted on June 30, 2014 by ryan la chica

We are Maria, Quentin, and Hawkins (the cat). This is the first summer we’ve signed up for a CSA and we couldn’t love it more! The two of us pick up full berry and vegetable shares (orchard share to come!!).

This week we got four quarts of strawberries, four stalks garlic, two stalks of red onion, three stalks of white onion, a cute plastic bag of flor de calabaza, one bunch mizuna and one of Swiss chard, two pounds of snap peas (one from Greig Farm and one from Miromex) and a pound of mixed salad greens. We ran through most of it this week save for some leftover onions and garlic. And we’ve been able to lug everything back to our home in Ridgewood in three canvas tote bags.

Though we’ve planning to make strawberry preserves the way Maria’s grandmother likes to, this time we ate through all 4 quarts by Wednesday afternoon! Last week, we somehow managed to restrain ourselves enough to save a quart for a batch of strawberry biscuits… but not this time around.

For breakfast, we often make scrambled eggs served on tortillas with some scraps of green veggies. This week we used cilantro and sugar snap peas. Both of us bring lunch to work during weekdays and we’ve been happily throwing the mixed salad greens on our turkey sandwiches for extra crunch. Yum! Continue reading →

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Sokio Member Diary - Week of June 9th

Posted on June 16, 2014 by ryan la chica

SOKIO - We are a family of three—Amanda, Mauricio and newborn Paulo who is just twelve weeks old. We pick up full vegetable, berry, orchard, and egg shares every week, and a meat share every other week. We’ve also bought large quantities of maple syrup through Southside CSA.

We joined the CSA last year, and it transformed our lives in an amazing way! We were planning our wedding celebration which happened in August, and also got pregnant a couple of months into the season. The incredibly delicious produce, fruit and meat nourished me throughout my pregnancy (we continued with the winter shares as well), and after sampling quite a lot of meat in the first few months, we ended up special ordering some lamb, steaks and sausages for our wedding reception.

It’s been fun to come back to the Woods for pickups on a weekly basis, and a great way for some of our friends who are also members to get to know Paulo.

This last week the first strawberries arrived, and that’s definitely a hallelujah feeling for me!

I was also reminded of how bountiful the shares can be as the summer kicks in—we definitely need to clear some room in our freezer! We bought a small counter height freezer last year to store all of the meat and berries we were getting, and it’s been wonderful to feast off of last season all year long. We still have some blueberries and beets from last summer and some vegetables from the winter share.

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Blood & Thunder Member Diary - Week of June 2

Posted on June 9, 2014 by ryan la chica

Blood & Thunder (aka Mary, Hashem and Xochi - and sometimes more friends)

Southside CSA’s sweetest “member”

We are a household of two (plus a dog). We have signed up for the Full Greig (Berry) Share, Full Egg, ½ Veggie and ½ Meat Shares.

Getting Stuff

Meat & Eggs

Eggs, Strawberries, & Asparagus

Share in a Bag

Ryan and Xochi

Here are the meals from my week that I used CSA share stuff: Continue reading →

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Member Diary - B Week Berry + Eggs by Lara

Posted on May 19, 2014 by ryan la chica

Berry means Asparagus in May

Blog entry for a Half Share of MONTY DELUXE — Week B.

Pick up date: May 12, 2014 — Week 2 of Summer ’14!

The half share means I only pick up every other week.

My share is just for me, & a few lucky friends who occasionally get what I can’t finish

Yellow Bell Eggs

The Summer always starts a bit light, as things are just beginning to grow after the long winter, so we only got one veggie this week: Asparagus! However, it was amazing, and I am still trying to finish it. We got a huge bucket of asparagus — 3 & 1/2 pounds!! — from Grieg Farm, and I got a dozen eggs from Yellow Bell Farm.

Asparagus by Greig Farm

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