Pick-your-own flowers and put-together-your-own table

Went to pick up this week's CSA yesterday: a less hardy load of carrots, red potatoes, lettuce & escarole, zucchini, a cucumber, some scallions and green onions. This week's pick-your-own was really fun, though! It was raining pretty steadily, so I opted not to take pictures. I was able to get a whole quart of blackberries. They were super flavorful and sweet. I also got these pretty flowers (zinnias, snap dragons, sunflowers, etc.):

They're scattered around the apartment. The biggest bunch are featured on the new table, built by none other than the very competent and industrious Ellen Thomas.

Local fish!

This is a moment to confess that Ellen and I are more pescetarians than vegetarians. Had we established this diet preference before? Does it matter? Probably not. Anyway, fun-fact, we love seafood! And a couple of days ago, I went to explore a local seafood market that Ellen had discovered. It's right over in West Concord. A friendly (new friend?) behind the counter, CJ, helped me pick out two delicious fresh pieces of scrod, caught locally near the Boston coastline. We washed the fish, dried it in paper towels, added some cracker crumbs to one and "seafood spices" and cracker crumbs to the other. Salt. And then we tried to decide which piece tasted better. Results are still not in.

Meal entirely from CSA

This past week, we made a delicious veggie dinner. All of the ingredients in it (except the olive oil) were grown at The Food Project: red potatoes, onions, garlic, zucchini, and carrots. We roasted them in a little basting olive oil that has thyme and parsley in it. Salt and pepper to taste...and it tasted good.

Pics of the new apartment in a non-cooking non-csa moment

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This week's (week 6) pick-your-own

This week, I got to fight the honey bees for these beauties. Sunflowers and zinnias :)

From the archive: Random pictures!

A sink full of CSA (from 2 weeks ago) & a delicious garlic scape omelet with cooked greens and corn bread. A lunch of champions.

Shhh we took a break from cooking fresh veggies & got take-out...

Friend dinner part 3! By way of gift certificate, Ellen, David and Nicole & I made a picnic out of Italian take-out. Lots of board-game excitement ensued after we killed all of this awesome pasta. Sometimes, taking a break from your CSA is necessary. If you love something, let it go, and when you wake up the next morning, your fridge will still be full of a daunting amount of food. You know the ole saying.