I just started reading “Plenty”, by Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon. I’ve been wanting to read it for awhile now (it’s been out three years), but just didn’t get around to it.
I know this is nothing new to any of you out there who’ve done CSAs before, and I had certainly heard enough about the vagaries of CSA shares that I should have known this would come. As of Friday evening, I’d hit a crisis point—way too much cabbage. Two massive (as in bowling ball-sized) heads, in fact, were taking up space in the fridge, and procrastination was no longer an option.
I’m only two weeks into my CSA, and I’m already dangerously close to being in the weeds, so to speak. Come Friday, when I went to pick up this week’s half bushel, I still had a bunch of radishes and a cabbage left over from last week’s bounty (plus a heel of zucchini bread and a few slices of thick-cut bacon, but those are much less of a problem). So, today I kicked it into overdrive in the kitchen:
Candied bacon is so last year…
Okay, I know this has been a pretty sad excuse for a blog lately (and yes, I can just hear some of you saying “lately?”–don’t think that I can’t 🙂 ). But really, I have a good excuse–actually a couple of them. (more…)