Saturday, May 29, 2010

Week 3 - What IS That?

Here's what we got this week.

Tomatoes (easily recognizable - Geronimo variant, we're told).
Pak Coi (a little more exotic, but not hard to figure out - pretty much a bok choi - Mei Qing Choi is the variant).
Swiss Chard (not sure if anything else has quite the red stem that swiss chard does. It also comes in yellow (just as vibrant) and white.)
Lettuce (pretty easy to figure out. Think the variant is Red Deer Tongue. How's that for a name?)
Curly Kale (Kale is pretty distinctive, so that's pretty easy to figure out.)
The last two... well, I'm guessing the bunch is parsley, but wouldn't bet on it. It didn't smell like cilantro, but then my sniffer's not all that great right now.
The final bunch of leaves? That had me stumped. I had to go to wikipedia to figure it out. A lucky stab, and I figured out it's collard greens. When I checked the warning e-mail the CSA sends out, it was confirmed.

Now I gotta figure out what I'm going to do with all of it. I know I'm going to make kale chips. That almost goes without saying. Never had 'em before, but have wanted to make them for a while. And the collard greens... well, I think I have some salt pork in the freezer, so I'll have to do a traditional treatment. Let's see what else I come up with. Wish me luck. This is where the CSA is going to get fun.

1 comment:

  1. The Kale Chips were yummy! An instant favorite . . . thanks Johnny!

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