Monday mornings, I try to clean out my fridge to make room for the new week’s share-box contents. So far this season, I’ve been keeping up fairly well, tossing out just a few items I never got to. Today’s partial casualty, a forgotten handful of snow peas, now two weeks aged and slimy, was hiding under a…
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“Junebug” ice cream
The thought of making ice cream has always evoked for me the smells and sounds of my grandparents’ cellar in Marseilles, Illinois. Even when I use my Cuisinart doohickey with the canister you keep in the freezer so it’s ready when you’re ready, my brain conjures up sharp, minerally rock salt and wet burlap sack,…
10-Minute, Lemony Broccoli Soup
Though I’m still in the honeymoon phase with my month-old Vitamix, part of me still needs convincing that it’s not going to end up as this decade’s NordicTrack. This soup I whipped up to take for lunch tomorrow should save the mega-blender from coat-rack status for quite some time. 10-minute, lemony broccoli soup 1 small…
Swap-Box Hero: Strawbarb Preserves
One of the perks of being a site host is that you get to scavenge through the swap box at the end of pick-up day. This week, that meant we staff got to divvy up bundles of underloved endive and rhubarb. Thanks, but no thanks on more greens—I got plenty in my own sharebox. But…
The heartbreak of micro-amnesia
Tuesday, after having counseled the 30-some CSA picker-uppers who visited Moore Brothers Monday that they ought to use their portion of fragile microgreens within 24 hours, I dutifully packed mine into my lunch bag. I’d assembled the fixings for a lovely salad: butter lettuce, spinach, and scallions from the CSA, a little Red Oak from…
Quickled Radishes, Two Ways
I’m in red radish overload this week: a huge bunch in Monday’s CSA box, plus we finally got a heat spike in Philadelphia – a string of over-80, humid days – that sent my entire patch of Cherry Belles to the verge of bolt. Rads can quickly get woody after they flower, so I yanked…
White wines for green leaves
We put this wine on the tasting table Monday, which, not coincidentally, was Opening Day for Moore Brothers as a host site for the LFFC CSA. I chose Diego Bolognani’s Nosiola precisely because it’s worked well for me in the past with leafy, tannic greens, and I knew our boxes would be full of cool-weather…
The Braisy Bunch
Lots of gorgeous green things in my half-share today – spinach, kale, lettuce, bok choy and more – but what caught my eye immediately was this bunch of White Beauty radishes. Perfect for braising. I’d never had white radishes before last spring – and I’d never even cooked radishes before last spring, either. If you’ve never…
Here We Go
Hey there. My name is Susan Crawshaw, and I’m the blogger behind Boxing Day. I grew up in the Midwest, the child of generations of teachers, farmers, and teachers of farming. Some of my earliest and fondest memories involve home-grown food, from tagging along with my grandfather to his tomato patch in the community garden…
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