The Great Utah CSA Experiment 2009 - Weeks 10 & 11!

Week 10 brought some new things - cabbage and peppers! Yay for sweet peppers, I'm going to have to make stuffed peppers soon!

CSA Week 10:

CSA SHARE					Price	Value
0.88 lb zucchini (3)					1.29/lb	$1.13
2.25 lb cucumbers (3)					2/$1.00	$1.50
0.25 lb green onions					2.36/lb	$0.59
0.50 lb green peppers (2)					2/$1.00	$1.00
2.31 lb red potatoes					3.99/lb	$9.23
2.00 lb corn (4 ears)					5/$1.00	$0.80
3.75 lb cabbage					0.69/lb	$2.59

The cabbage was a funny squat shape, but it's still cabbage, it'll do just fine for potstickers (or as I've decided, spring rolls; as potstickers are just too time consuming). 4 ears of corn is a lot more manageable than the 7! I got last time. All in all, it was a nice mixture of storable goods and reasonable portion sizes of perishables.

CSA Week 11 brought cantaloupe! You know it's getting on in the summer when you get melons.

CSA Week 11:

CSA SHARE					Price	Value
1.21 lb yellow zucchini (3)					1.29/lb	$1.56
2.00 lb cucumbers (2)					2/$1.00	$1.00
0.63 lb green onions					2.36/lb	$1.48
1.0 lb green peppers (2)					2/$1.00	$1.00
1.88 lb red potatoes					3.99/lb	$7.50
2.25 lb corn (4 ears)					5/$1.00	$0.80
4.00 lb cantaloupe					0.39/lb	$1.56

So this time I remembered to tell you it was a special zucchini variety - yellow zucchini! It's just like regular zucchini, only um - yellow. Earlier this year I got a large yellow zucchini from my neighbor, but I passed it along to my sister (story follows) so I didn't get any myself.

So the story goes: my brother in law claims to not like zucchini but love yellow squash. They pretty much taste the same to me and my sister, so I provided some yellow zucchini and she submitted him to a blind tasting of yellow zucchini under conditions where he thought he was getting summer squash. He thought it tasted great, but when the trick was revealed he just exclaimed, "I guess I only like yellow zucchini!" Whatever that means.

By this time I'm up to my ears in green onions, and the stalks are not holding up under prolonged refrigerator storage. I was able to use a bit for a family potato salad, but I've started slicing and freezing them - we'll see how well they hold up.