CSA: Week One

Last Thursday, Dr. BB picked up our first CSA box of the year!

It was a box full of delicious greens:
Green Garlic
Green Curly Kale
Pea Shoots
Spinach
Salad Turnips
Turnip Greens
Broccoli Raab
Oregano

Salad turnips, kale, and broccoli raab. There WERE more turnips, but I ate them.

Here's our plan to eat it all before our next box arrives in a week.

• Saute the green garlic with spinach. Add some balsamic vinegar and Parmesan cheese and that's a solid lunch side. I also have been known to add a turnip to mix.
• Do a similar thing with the turnip greens for a lunch side.
• Pea shoots go on Dr. BB's sandwiches at lunchtime.  He loves them.
• We're going to replace the mushroom with kale in our polenta lasagna recipe (we use a Rachel Ray recipe). We've never done it before, but I think the recipe is solid enough that even if the kale is kind of gross, we can pick around it.
• The broccoli raab is a bit of a wild card, but our farmers recommended this recipe, so I think we're going to try that for a dinner side some night.
• The oregano is a big question mark. We have never done well with incorporating the herbs and spices from our CSA box and I think it's probably going to be a problem this year, too.  It's not enough for pesto, but it's enough that will overwhelm a lot of dishes with its flavor. What would you do with this much oregano?

And that's our plan.  Yay!