#farmshare

First, does anyone recognize these green guys?

I'm guessing maybe some kind of radish? I haven't cut them open yet.

Here is the group picture:

I got radishes, rhubarb, asparagus, green garlic, greens of some kind, a big bunch of sage, beets, and Jerusalem artichokes (which I only recognized because of that "this isn't ginger" picture that made the rounds last week or so.) I also got the cheese share, which is three cheeses every other week; this time it's gouda, baby swiss, and a sheep's cheese spread. I'm signed up for the fruit share, too, but that doesn't start until June.

Here's everybody hanging out in the box--

and a little free advertising:

In wintertime, you take them down, soak them in water, and cook with a ham hock or similar. My sources varied on whether it's best to hang them in sun or not-in-sun, so I did two short strings and hung them in different spots in the kitchen.

I don't know how well it'll actually work--I'm having visions of the beans just rotting up there--but I'm getting a lot of beans from the farmshare. Like, a lot. I already froze three quarts, and I have two more quarts (green and yellow) coming this Friday, so I figured I'd give this a whirl and see what happens!

I made a big salad with the lettuce, carrots, and radishes, and a few other things from the grocery store. With the regular peas, I tried my hand at pasta carbonara again--I've never gotten it quite right, but it came out reasonably OK this this time:

I made a bowl of creamed spinach with the spinach--there really wasn't much of it--and the sugar peas, I'm eating lightly steamed with butter. The strawberries, I'm still Just Eating.

I'll have some radishes and onions left, but I was able to opt out of getting them in next week's box, so that's OK.

Next week's lineup is cabbage, carrots, lettuce, peas, sugar peas, spinach, zucchini, and rhubarb.

(No strawberries! That's OK, but I'm hoping I haven't seen the last of strawberries.)