CSA Week 9

Hurray! The share this week included a small watermelon! I had a choice between yellow and red….and chose a yellow.

There were also two kinds of peppers (bell and snack), two kinds of tomatoes (cherry and heirloom), two ‘onions’: chives and purple, purple skinned small potatoes that were still wet from a rain a few hours before our pickup time. I had a choice between lettuce, eggplant or okra and I chose lettuce. And I chose leeks from the overage table.

I envision all kinds of good meals this week…the ones I am thinking of right away are:

Large salads with lettuce, tomato, pepper, chives (edamame or peanuts for protein to make it a meal)

Hash browns made with shredded potatoes (leaving on the purple skins), onion, and bell pepper

Eggs with chives or leek

Stir fry with leek, pepper  and mushrooms (the last ingredient from the grocery store)

Chives

I always have chives in my garden. They come back every year even though a use quite a few in salads while the flowers and leaves are still tender. This year I have started looking more closely at the round flowers on top.

The pink-purple color contrasts nicely with the green of the garden. The teardrop shaped buds burst open and it is almost immediately apparent that the bud includes multiple flowers.

As the small flowers open, the shape transforms from tear drop to round. The flowers are positioned to all face outward.

The petals continue to elongate and appear to thin. Soon they will past the stage for including in salads.