Week 10

• red tropea onion
• green and purple bell peppers
• lemon basil!
• kohlrabi
• mesclun
• green beans
• beets!
• honeydew
• apples
• zucchini
• cucumber
• garlic and tomatoes*

Well, that’s one way to put it

But that’s just a little crude, don’t you think?

To make the [abstinence-only] point, Mr. Love grabbed a tape dispenser and snapped off two fresh pieces. He slapped them to his filing cabinet and the floor; they trapped dirt, lint, a small metal bolt. “Now when it comes time for them to get married, the marriage pulls apart so easily,” he said, trying to unite the grimy strips. “Why? Because they gave the stickiness away.”

Summer Vegetable Crêpes

Summer Vegetable Crêpes
Originally uploaded by gay.goy.gourmet

menu

• crêpes with corn and golden beets, goat cheese and ricotta; served with steamed green beans and carrots, and beurre blanc; cantaloupe-basil sorbet
• thai eggplant curry, sticky rice
• zucchini tacos
• spaghetti with overgrown arugula, broccoli, and walnuts
• chicken paprikás with cucumber-onion salad

CSA Week 9

Half the summer still remains!

• tomatoes*
• cantaloupe
• big soup-making arugula
• mesclun
• green beans
• kohlrabi
• large and two small cucumbers
• zucchini
• cherries
• green acres thai eggplants*
• green acres carrots*
• lots of broccoli
• farmgirl organics golden beets*
• corn

Cool tool of the month: regexhibit

Regexhibit matches regex using perl, and provides all kinds of details about the match / capture groups. Previously I would test regexes (regexen?) in SubEthaEdit, but this does it on the fly. Very handy indeed!

“exquisitely ugly”

In just a few years, the exquisitely ugly shoes known as "Crocs" have spread around the world like a Paris Hilton sex tape, giving rise to an epidemic of croc babies and their more egregious counterparts, croc parents. (Slate article)

Vegetable day #8

• crimini and oyster mushrooms*
• parsley*
• green onions
• the best cabbage I have ever had, picked this morning (see below, all four slaws)
• collard greens
• basil*
• corn
• zucchini
• non-chioggia Italian heirloom beets
• cucumbers large and small
• garlic*
• broccoli
• tomatoes*
• peaches!

* I bought / not in the box.

Menu

This week the CSA box was big, but we also had plans for someone or other to come over on Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. So I had to supplement with a few extra exciting things.

• 4 cole slaws: szechuan [with broccoli, cabbageturnip, chili oil, sesame oil, and a bit of soy sauce], thai [with basil, mint, peanuts, tomato, chile, and lots of fish sauce], american [with creamy mustardy dressing, peas, and raisins], hungarian [with onion]
• the lamb kibbe I've been meaning to make for a month. The ground lamb is now defrosted.
• sautéed zucchini with lemon and garlic
• tabbouleh
• caldo verde or caldo gallego (some soup with chorizo/chouriço and kale)
• corn fritter of some kind (probably a couple kinds, with onion or zucchini)
• tofu marsala with lots of mushroomy goodness
• omelet with bacon and mushrooms (and a touch of chile paste)

• cabbageturnips
• green onions
• zucchini
• cucumber
• nappa
• red leaf lettuce
• broccoli
• kale
• corn!