Tomatoes, yali asian pears, sweet peppers, green beans, seedless grapes, sweet dumpling squash, and red cippolini onions. That is the list of vegetables from my CSA today. I swear it is like Christmas every Thursday. I get so excited to find out what it is in my box. I go right at 4:30 which it the time I'm told they will be at my pick-up site. The only problem so far is that my box has been on the very bottom of the stack. And the stack is as tall as I am. So that means I have to move all the boxes to get to mine.
Yali asian pears are like other asian pears but they look more like pears than apples which is often the shape of an asian pear. I'll let you know how they taste. The grapes are delicious. The red cippolini onions are small, about the size of shallots. According to the Terra Firma Farm newsletter they are red onions but more pungent than regular red onions when raw but delicious when cooked. So again I'll let you know how they taste. I'm going to make a green bean salad for a pot luck I'm going to on Sunday night.
The potluck is for my friend Sean. It was his birthday yesterday. Now lest you think this is going to be a big ol' healthy meal, you should know I'm making something else. Deep fried macaroni and cheese. Sean and his wife Shannon bought me for my birthday a deep fryer. And I was watching Paula Deen one day and she was about to make deep fried mac and cheese. So I immediately called Sean and said oh my God you have got to see this. So ever since we have been talking about deep fried mac and cheese. And on top of the obscenity of this idea the mac and cheese before it is breaded and deep fried is wrapped in bacon. Yes, bacon! Can you believe it? I mean it sounds so bad and yet so good! Again I'll let you know how it is.
Thursday is a great day all around. I get my CSA box. Then I hang out with the gays on Thursday night. Tonight is at Alan and and David's. (Shout out to Alan, a regular reader.) Alan is a great cook and also a member of Terra Firma Farm CSA. It is always very exciting to go to their house. Then I will come home to find, hopefully, two great shows, Ugly Betty and The Office, waiting for me on my tivo. I say hopefully because sometimes the tivo doesn't change the channel. So I know I'll get Ugly Betty but not necessarily The Office because it is on a different channel than UB. So keep your fingers crossed. I know I will be.
That's it for today. What will tomorrow hold? Well I know it wont be a box full of vegetables. But if I did get a box full of vegetables every day it would make Thursday so much less special. And Thursday wouldn't want that would it?
Peace Out!
1 comment:
Can't wait to hear what you ate last night. I know it will be in the blog. I love living vicariously through your blog. You have such a fun and interesting life and fun friends too. I also can't wait to hear what the deep fried macaroni tastes like, because I know I don't need to be eating it, but again, I'll live vicariously through your experiences. Miss you.
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