spring CSA, week 2

This week's email described last week's share as a "teaser". Yeah, I see what they meant:

• 10 parsnips (nominal 2 pounds)
• 7 Fuji apples (nominal 2 pounds)
• 2 large blue potatoes
• 4 medium-large white potatoes
• 2 watermelon radishes (one large, one small)
• bunch arugula
• head of unspecified lettuce (does not match picture in the manifest, which was of the type we got last week; I don't know what this is but it's pretty)
• bunch of "gourmet lettuce mix"

We're getting the standard box. The small box omits the head of lettuce, the white potatoes, and half the parsnips. It occurs to me that tracking these differences will help us decide what size to get next year.

Going into Pesach, I'm happy to have plenty of root veggies to roast, stuff for salads, greens to saute, and applesauce. (Do carrots grow in the spring? I think of them as parsnip-siblings and they go so well together.)

The farm stand (optional side orders) had fresh rosemary this week, and for less than it costs at the grocery store. Rosemary is very nice with blue potatoes and a little sea salt.

(Sea salt? When did I start getting particular about salt? But yes, sea salt does something there that ordinary table salt doesn't. I guess it's the coarser grind, because really, doesn't all salt come from the sea? Or, if some is manufactured in a lab, how would you be able to tell?)