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…
Tag: LFFC
Instagram Couscous Salad
Believe it or not, there’s no filter on that shot. A couple fresh-pulled beets and their greens (which, for these Bull’s Blood beets, ought to be called, “magentas”) transformed a delicious but rather white salad of roasted Harukei turnips and Israeli couscous into a bowl of impossibly pink pearls. Easy, light, and bright. Instagram couscous…
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…
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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