CSA Haul

Every week, we make a Sunday-morning journey to the Hollywood Farmers Market to pick up a CSA basket from our friendly neighborhood CSA, South Central Farmers.  A CSA (community-supported agriculture) farm typically sells shares of their weekly produce harvest rather than selling individual vegetables.  For $20, we get a big box full of whatever South Central happened to pull out of the ground that week.

It's really fun to see how the selection of vegetables changes slowly throughout the year.  Plus, when you have a ton of local, seasonal vegetables in the fridge it makes it a lot easier to remember to eat seasonally.  After you've been doing it for a few years, you just start to associate particular months with particular vegetables.  Though I have to say, living in Los Angeles makes that a little crazy.  For instance, we were getting peppers well into December, whereas up north in Davis pepper season stops in mid September.

Anyway, we got a ton of delicious shit in our CSA basket this week, including but not limited to: celery, romaine lettuce, red-leaf lettuce, kohlrabi, red onion, chard, several different kinds of kale, oranges, lemons, and green cabbage.  Oh yeah, and we bought some Brussels sprouts at the farmers' market too because we just couldn't resist.

The cabbage has already been sauerkrauted and we made tofu dill salad lettuce-wraps with some of the romaine, but I'm not sure what we're going to do with the rest of it.  I'm just glad we're not getting turnips and parsley anymore because we still have a ton of that in the fridge from last week.