winter CSA, week 8

[cellio]

• 11 carrots (varied sizes)
• 3 green meat radishes
• 7 Empire apples
• 5 "white" potatoes (I expected the skins to be lighter; haven't looked inside yet)
• lettuce
• Rosie Asian greens
• 2lb spelt berries (what the heck are... ok, got help from Google)
• dozen eggs
• quarter pound of "cowboy coffee" cheese (there's an espresso rub)
• jar zucchini relish (who knew?)

I might need to pickle some of the radishes. My pickled daikon radish back at the beginning of the season worked out pretty well, but I like them more than Dani does. Do radishes roast well, I wonder?

There's one delivery left in the winter CSA. We signed up for the spring share, which is weekly for eight weeks (after a gap of three weeks, if I recall correctly). We'll make decisions about summer later; for that we have options for both size and frequency.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Radishes roast quite well. I was just talking to someone else about that! For those big suckers I think 2-inch chunks might be best.

That is a lot of spelt berries. What are your ideas? I wouldn't have a clue what to do with them.

[cellio]

Thanks for the info about roasting!

The CSA folks suggested spelt-berry porridge. loosecanon's suggestions sound good too.

[sine_nomine]

Radishes roast AMAZINGLY! :-)

[cellio]

Thanks!

[loosecanon]

radishes are also neat in miso based vegetable stew, if you would care for that.

spelt is an early period wheat analog, cook it like a porridge, and you can cool it to be the base of a nice side dish, as people do with farro, or texture in a soup, among other uses.

great haul!

[cellio]

Thanks! Those all sound appealing.

[dsrtao]

In addition to roasting well, radishes are really good pan-fried. I like reducing them to matchsticks first, but anything that gets them thin enough to be crispy would work.

[cellio]

Ooh, that sounds nice. Thanks!