Adventures in Cooking Our CSA Share: Greens, Greens, Greens

We picked up our big box of vegetables from "our" farm on Friday. The kids were very curious about the fields where the vegetables grow so we're arranging to take a tour of the farm (perhaps in July when Gommie visits, and more veggies are growing).

Our box contained baby spinach, kale, 2 heads lettuce, bok choi, Asian stir fry greens, mesclun mix, cucumber, and . . . well, we can't tell if they are turnips or radishes. They are small and white and radish-shaped but seem like young turnips. Just not sure. I'll let you know.

For lunch post-farm, I made a baby spinach saute with olive oil, salt, and garlic, plus traditional cucumber sandwiches (2 pieces of buttered white bread, thinly sliced cucumber, and a little kosher salt) and sliced turnip/radish. And only I ate any of it, despite the kids' promising that they would "eat everything from our farm." (Yep, I ate cucumber. And turnip/radish. Miracles never cease. I won't say I loved them but they are better than any I've had from a store.)

Well, it's a start, especially because they started to realize that food comes from a farm not the grocery store. So, even if they don't try a thing, they will have learned something valuable.

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P.S. Mama Teacher, with whom I shared some of the produce because we are overrun, says they are radishes. For sure. Cool.