What's in the box?

We got our first CSA produce box last week and we're expecting our second round today. I'm guessing we were a little late on the sign up list last week because our box didn't contain what it was suppose to.

Suspiciously missing from our box was Mint, Oregano, Dino Kale, and Red Mustard Greens. What we did get was a HUGE bunch of Asparagus, Rome apples, Rhubarb, Grindstone Farm Lettuce, Spinich...and about four other kinds of lettuce and salad greens. We're not even sure what some of them were, but we chopped them up nonetheless.

Getting all of this produce was fun. Our good friend Rachel came to visit last Thursday and the weather was gorgeous so we grilled up some chicken, corn on the cob, and asparagus and I made a strawberry rhubarb pie for dessert. I was even able to use a leftover hazelnut crust that I had made for a Martha Stewart recipe at Thanksgiving and kept frozen for just the right occasion.

We took the rest of the asparagus camping with us and had enough to enjoy the fire roasted greens with our meal twice.

The salad greens have been the trickiest thing for us so far, partly because we were off camping for four days after we got them and now some of the greens are starting to wilt and not be as good. We did use the spinach in some pasta and an egg scramble.

I plan to make applesauce with the Rome apples this week and we're hoping for a more varied box in our delivery today. I would like some more fruit.

After we finish up our three weeks we'll reevaluate what we got verses what we ended up spending at the grocery store in supplements, along with looking at the other options from the farm, and see which route we want to go. For this coming week we've already spent our usual budget at the store, even with the home produce delivery, but I think some of that is due to us having to shop before we got our next box. We had to plan menus without knowing what we might have to work with, but yesterday was the only chance we'd have to go until Saturday and we needed food for lunch. We might have to start doing our shopping on Saturdays.