Camacho Watcho

Last week marked the beginning of our CSA share season. This is our first time doing a CSA and we’ve heard that you get a large amount of veggies for two people, so we decided to share with another couple. I didn’t get a good photo of our share last week, so I’ll just list out the contents: lettuce, snap peas, broccoli, spinach, kale, green onions, arugula, basil.

As you can imagine, this bunch allowed me to make several meals with the veggies. Some were a hit and others need a little more work. And some veggies never made it into a meal (the snap peas were just crunched as a yummy snack.)

In addition to the couple meals below, we also made pesto to toss in pasta, a broccoli pasta (total flop) and several salads. I had a couple lunches of my increasingly favorite salad – arugula in a lemony vinaigrette. We also had a great salad of lettuce, cannelini beans, red onion, and kalamata olives. This was served for dinner with some stinky cheese and homemade baguette, this was one of the favorite meals of the week.

The best meal of the week, however, was the pork chop. I started with olive oil and chopped garlic in a skillet and sauteed the kale for a few minutes. I removed that from the skillet, then added some cannelini beans. Both the kale and beans were finished with a squirt of lemon juice and served with a grilled, juicy pork chop. The flavor combination was fantastic – salty pork, sweet beans and earthy, rich greens. I will definitely be making that dish again!

As for the sandwich – all I can say is that my eyes were bigger than my stomach. But I had a fresh baguette and I was starving…so please don’t judge me by the size of my sandwich.

Tags: CSA, Food, vegetables

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