Hello friends and foodies!
Welcome to my first blog, designed to document the kitchen adventures and challenges of my first season as a member of my local CSA. My goal is to create a site to collect and exchange recipes and meal ideas inspired by my weekly produce distribution.
For those of you who may not know, CSA stands for Community Supported (sometimes Shared or Sponsored) Agriculture. Briefly, a CSA consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation where the growers and consumers share the risks and benefits of food production. My local CSA of Crown Heights is supplied by Sang Lee Farms of Peconic, NY. Sang Lee Farms is a second generation, organic vegetable farm originally growing produce for the Asian markets in New York and along the east coast. Over the last fifteen years the farm has shifted its focus to retail, farmers' markets, and, luckily for me, CSA.
This Tuesday marks the fifth week of the distribution season and so far, I've received a delightfully delicious collection of several lettuces, bok choy, turnips, beets, radishes, cucumber, asparagus, multicolored carrots, sugar snap peas, scallions, garlic scapes, squash blossoms, strawberries, and blueberries! I'll recap some of the recipe highlights from the past few weeks in my next posting and then hope to record my kitchen ventures more frequently, at least once a week.
Thanks so much for reading! Please send any ideas and/or questions my way. . .
