World Peas CSA – Week One

Finally! YAY!

This week we got:

• Pea Tendrils
• Chinese Broccoli
• Swiss Chard
• Lettuce
• Garlic Scapes
• Radishes
• Mint (which I left in the swop box, my mint plant is double-OC)
• Strawberries
• And of course I picked up some milk at the dairy!

This year, for the first time,  World Peas is offering a small share which is what we signed up for.  This filled up the small (1/2 bushel) box pretty well, so I am interested to see what our yield is as the season progresses.

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Slow-Cooked Vegetarian Boston Baked Beans

I love baked beans. I love them in the winter, when baking them in the oven warms the house, and in the summer, when using the slow cooker makes having them and a cool house a possibility. I love them served over brown bread and I love them at cookouts. They are delicious, but they definitely take planning.

Just ten more days…

…Until my CSA starts. I can’t wait!

I love the WorldPEAS CSA and if you are in the Merrimack Valley or Boston area, I encourage you to check it out. 18 weeks of delicious produce, some of it ethnic and unique to WorldPEAS.

WorldPEAS’s parent organization, the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project assists people with limited resources, many of them immigrants and some of them urban teens, with beginning to farm in Massachusetts. NESFP provides training, support and a market (the CSA and Lowell Farmer’s Market) to the new farmers, creating local, sustainable economic development.

Plus, they’ve introduced me to such delights as ground cherries, pigweed, spey cabbage, thai eggplant, and sweet potato greens!

Goat Cheese & Roasted Corn Quesadillas

This is, no joke, a really quick and easy recipe (in fact, I wouldn’t even call it a recipe it’s so easy.)  It’s also crazy-delicious.  It is so quick, easy, delicious, and easily made from items I have on-hand, that it was the perfect dinner solution last night (and saved us from ordering pizza.)

See, Gist and I had been camping all weekend, and arrived home smelling of campfire, in desperate need of showers, hungry, and totally relaxed (in other words, there was no way I wanted to cook anything complicated.)  Warning – camping bliss detour ahead:

Fennel Pizza with White Bean Purée

Thanks so much for all of your nice comments about Sebb. He was a well-loved cat and he is missed. His feline diabetes, however, is not. To both cheer me up and acknowledge the fact that we no longer have to be at home at 7:00 am and 7:00 pm to administer insulin, Gist and I headed out to Western Mass. for the weekend where we enjoyed my favorite food:

Pizza, it’s what’s for dinner.

Happy Friday!

Friday is generally pizza night in our house; if you hadn’t already guessed, pizza is my absolute favorite food in the entire world and I just love closing out the work-week with a treat.

Terrible Name, Tasty Dish

Easy, quick, pantry-friendly, and perfect for a weeknight. Oh, it’s reeeeeally delicious and makes great leftovers. What more could you ask for?

The Best Lentil Soup Ever

That is not hyperbole. It’s the honest truth; Gist and I love this soup so much that I have made a big pot of it every week for the past month and a half for us to bring to work for lunch.  So good!

Mushroom Barley Soup

This is the best Mushroom Barley Soup I’ve ever eaten; if you love mushrooms like I do, it is heaven in a bowl!

English Muffin Strata

This right here is my go-to brunch dish. Easy, tasty and the bulk of the work gets done the night before; it’s so easy, I even served it on the day I got married!