Introducing: the first box of our CSA (Community Shared Agriculture) crop share for 2009! Please, please, hold your applause. These assorted root vegetables and lettuces (as is seasonal right now) arrived in St. Paul yesterday from an organic farm in Wisconsin that we help support by buying a share (well, in this case, we’re splitting a half share with friends, but you gotta start somewhere). We’re not sure if this is a great fit for our family just yet, but it’s worth the experiment. From now until late fall, we will pick up a box like this filled with in-season, local yummies every other week.
Then we will stare at it and try to figure out what the heck to do with it.
“What’s that purple one?!” -DanO
“Why, that’s kohlrabi!” I declare in an uppity, informed, organic produce consuming voice.
“How do you eat it??” -DanO
::crickets::
Ahem.
Anyone know any good kohlrabi recipes?
Unpronounceable, unidentifiable¬† flora aside, isn’t this beautiful?
Wait, did you seriously do a photo shoot with organic produce, Allison?
Hey. If you paid… ahem… what we paid… for these veggies, you’d photograph them too.
Yea, but didn’t you have anything better to do with your time?
What, like grow a human being?
Oh, wait.
Check.
By the way, watch out for the radishes. They’re spicy.
My dad likes to peel and eat Kohlrabi. It’s kind of sweet and radish like without the heat. Also, I think it goes well in salads if you slice it thin.
I LOVE the photo shoot. :D
That’s great! My family did that years ago, and it was so fun getting and eating such random veggies. Keep that Micah baby healthy with that Kohlrabi!
Good for you! How adventurous! I like having fresh veggies in the house, but they go bad so fast that I usually only get enough for salads and then of course green beans because they are the only green veggie that my hubby will eat as a side with dinner. :) I think the CSA thing sounds like fun…but I would have no clue how to prepare most of that stuff! Good luck! It looks healthy:) Baby will love it!