Buying Local: Week 18

We are rolling a bit behind this week. We lost some produce due to mold (peaches, eggplant, tomatoes). Going out to eat for two meals over the weekend also did not help and kind of set us back on using produce.

What We Bought:

• Hamburger buns from Evanston, IL

What We Learned:

• Real food can get moldy FAST. Some of my peaches did not even make it 5 days, and some of our tomatoes and peppers had to go straight to the compost bucket.
• Potatoes and onions should not be stored together. We are a bit tight on kitchen storage so we had both of them in the same drawer. Now we have them separated.
• You’re not supposed to store cucumbers in the fridge. No wonder they didn’t make it.

Buying Local: Week 17 & 7th CSA

These CSA boxes/bags ARE GETTING HEAVY!

That’s also because we got a melon this week! 

What We Bought:

• Mixed Cherry tomatoes
• Assorted slicing tomatoes
• Red Cabbage
• Shishito Peppers
• Tropical melon
• German Butterball Potatoes
• Mirai Sweetcorn
• Kohlrabi
• Japanese eggplant
• Zestar apples
• Peaches from St. Joseph Michigan

 

K’s homemade corn chowder used up some CSA potatoes and corn

 

What We Learned:

• More about vegetarian cooking. K bought a new cookbook so we could further utilize our boxes instead of relying on vegetables only as sides.
• Meal planning is so important in order to use what we have available without wasting it.
• Our compost game is STRONG! The last two months we have overflowed our bucket and had to have extra containers at pick up time.

 

K’s new cookbook