What To Do With A Box Of Vegetables: Paisley Farm Box 9

This year’s CSA is from Paisley Farm, a 25-acre operation located in Tivoli, NY. Paisley Farm grows organically and plants with the chef in mind. The 22-week CSA runs from June – October and I purchased the standard vegetable share. This share includes 8-9 vegetables and herbs per week (8-12 pounds) – enough to provide a family of three with 3-4 dinners’ worth of veg. The price equals out to $25 per week, the cost of which will be accounted for in my weekly Adventures In Budget Paleo Cooking posts.

Paisley Farm 2014 CSA Box 9

Leftover From Last Week

Carrots (non-CSA)
Cucumber
Spring garlic
Spring onions
Beets
Lettuce (2 heads, which were wasted)
Zucchini

How I Used My Share

I used half of the zucchini to make zucchini fries, which were great but need a little tweaking to be perfect.

I had a couple BAS (Big Ass Salads) with lettuce & cucumber for lunch.

I used more cucumber in a hearty salad with broccoli slaw.

I used 1 zucchini (and wasted most of 1) in a paleo lasagna.

And I plan to use the kale this week in a zoodle dish (providing I get more zucchini this week – I planned poorly and should have used the pattypan squash in the lasagna instead of the easily-zoodle-able regular zucchini. My bad.)

And that leaves tonight’s dinner, which will involve barbicoa and either a salad or some sort of massive stir-fry. Or I may just say screw it and work on my zucchini fry recipe.

My Favorite Dish From This Box

Those zucchini fries were crazy salty, but I can’t wait to tweak the recipe and share with you guys. The lasagna wasn’t half bad, either – the hubbs even ate (most) of it.

Next Week

Going into next week, I have ancient carrots, 2.5 pathetic looking heads of lettuce, 1 sad bunch of dandelion greens, a few shriveling beets, 1 lonely long zucchini, 3 huge pattypan squash, 5 cucumbers, 2 heads of kale, 2 spring onions, 2 heads of garlic and 3 leeks. Hopefully I can knock at least some of that out with dinner tonight, otherwise I’m not sure how I’m going to jam this week’s CSA bounty in my fridge.