CSA, Week 8 and Week 9

I didn't get last week's CSA details posted so this week I'll show what we've received and what we've been cooking the past couple weeks.

Week 8 CSA Share

Week 8: 

• cucumber
• eggplant
• purple bell pepper
• purple cabbage
• 3 tomatoes
• 3 yellow squash
• 4 ears sweet corn
• onion
• 1 pint blackberries
• 2 pints blueberries (fruitlovers)

Week 9 CSA Share

Week 9:  

• cucumber
• 3 red potatoes
• 3 tomatoes
• 4 yellow squash
• eggplant
• green bell pepper
• lettuce
• onion
• green beans
• purple cabbage
• pint blueberries
• 2 pints blackberries (fruitlovers)

Here's how we used the Week 7 and Week 8 shares:

• oven "fried" chicken (Cayne had to cut our whole chicken into pieces for this one):  chicken from our meat CSA, corn on the cob (on the side) 

• fried green tomatoes:  green tomatoes (these were delicious...neither Cayne nor I had ever had them before!)

• Rolled Stuffed Eggplant (we made this twice because it was so good) -- from The Joy of Cooking:  eggplant
• Pasta Primavera:  tomato, squash, zucchini, onion, carrots, kohlrabi, green bell pepper, purple bell pepper
• Cabbage salad (From Asparagus to Zucchini Cookbook):  cabbage
• hamburgers:  ground beef from the meat CSA, tomatoes, lettuce from our garden, onion, corn on the cob (on the side)
• sandwiches:  tomatoes, lettuce from our garden
• mozzarella stuffed sausage meatballs:  ground hot sausage from our meat CSA
• tacos:  ground beef from our meat CSA, onion, tomato (BTW, Trader Joe's taco seasoning is the absolute best taco seasoning you can buy...and their taco shells are great too)
• lasagna:  ground hot sausage from our meat CSA, ground beef from our meat CSA, (squash and zucchini in one of the lasagna pans I froze)

• Coffee/Crumb cake:  blueberries
• vanilla almond fruit tart:  blueberries and blackberries
• babyfood:  yellow squash, zucchini, and pattypan squash
• I also froze some chard and kale using my Foodsaver

We still need to use the potatoes, onion, cucumber, and a few of the berries from last week but we did a pretty good job making a dent in that box.  We also have 2 heads of green cabbage and lots of tomatoes from our DWI box to use up.  Time for some BLTs and some tomato/basil/mozzarella salads!  I also need to make a new batch of pickles using the cucumbers from the past couple weeks.