Veggies Veggies Galore!

I am so excited! About 2 months ago, I decided to join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) or vegetable co-op. This time I went with Home Sweet Farm, a farm in the Brenham area, about 60 miles from my house. I am getting a half-share, which means I pick up my veggies every other week. And this week was my first pick-up date. I was so excited and pleased to see what we got:

4 large carrots

1 head of cabbage

4 bulb green onions

3 turnips

1 bunch of collard greens

5 red potatoes

1 head of cauliflower

1 head of broccoli

1 bunch of kale

The girls started eating the carrots as soon as we got home. They were so good and sweet! 

Here's my plan for the veggies: I'm making a tuscan soup that will use the kale and potatoes, and some sausage we have in the freezer. I found a recipe for Creamy Cauliflower Soup in my Giada cookbook that sounds delicious. My sister posted a couple of recipes on Facebook for Turnip Mash that sound pretty yummy, kind of like a loaded baked potato (I mean turnip) all mashed up. The cabbage I am going to use for an Asian Chicken Salad (another recipe from Giada) but I'm going to put a Ginger-Peanut dressing on it. Tonight I'm making a broccoli salad, a recipe I've tweeked over the last few years. And the collard greens I will use in a new recipe that my friend Amy sent me called Amazing Lentils. The carrots we will just eat for snacks and the bulb green onions I'll use in my recipes that call for onions. I'm hoping that I can use everything up before any of it starts to go bad. I think these recipes will pretty much take us through the next two weeks until my next pick-up date. So we should be all set!

I plan to post pictures and details of the recipes as I cook them. Three cheers for organic, local food! Hoorah, hoorah, hoorah!