CSA Week 6

Week six brought us a full cooler at our normal time (after 5 pm on Thursday).  We delighted when the cooler came upstairs and got distracted from our house guests -- Uncle Warren and Grandma-- as we dove into it.  They left and we got started with surveying the exciting items in store for us.  I forgot to take off the pictures from last week (week 5) and so thus we have a combined slide show this week showing 5 & 6.  5 is the clearly skimpy week and 6 is a full table of items.

This week we received: Sweet Candy Onion, Red Potatoes, Yellow Squash, Green,Yellow & Purple Beans, Beets, Zucchini, Japanese Turnips, Kale, Romaine Lettuce, Cucumbers, herb-Spearmint and a dozen eggs.  I also purchased a whole chicken ~ which came frozen and is hormone and antibiotic free.  The chicken that we were able to purchase was $3.50/lb which is not cheap compared to the whole chicken you might pick up at the store for .99/lb. 

We are all excited to try the chicken.... but this week we were disappointed to not get any fruit.  Most other weeks we have received it and it is one of our favorite parts about the CSA. Last week they had alluded to peaches, which we all love.  Hopefully we will get some in the next cooler.  

We were very excited to have some different colored green beans.  The purple ones look so interesting.  However, they supposedly turn the same color green after cooking and don't taste too different.  I think the colors would be interesting.  I'm a big fan of squash and zucchini and we've been sauteing it with wheat berries and different sauces. 

Also exciting -- June has posted a few recipes that we have enjoyed.   :-)