CSA Logbook - Strawberries & Lettuce

I've been wanting to get back into blogging about my food life for awhile, and I'm finally doing it! The blog's new name is dedicated to my orange tabby, Pekoe. I adopted her in early April of this year after arguably very little planning or deliberation. No regrets, though, she's an adorable weirdo who is slowly discovering that I'm not so bad to be around.


My CSA started last Wednesday. This will be my third year of veggies for dayyys, aka, subscribing to the One Straw Farm CSA. While I love getting a pile of fresh vegetables every week, it can be really tough to use them all up in an interesting way (said everyone who ever did a CSA). This year I'm going to try my hardest to document what I do with every single item in my share each week. If I stick to it, I'll have a thorough record of what worked and what didn't for future vegetable reference.

This week's haul:

about 10 strawberries
head of Salvonia lettuce
half a bunch of curly kale
medium-sized head of bok choy

In perhaps the most boring way to start this CSA series, I rinsed and ate the strawberries. Period.

Then, I made these corn fritters from Smitten Kitchen, mexican-style with cotija cheese, lime zest, and chili-lime seasoning. I needed something to go with them, so I decided to make a big salad with the Salvonia lettuce. This lettuce is pretty cute, especially sliced vertically along the core.


I tossed in some finely chopped cabbage and red pepper that were languishing in the fridge, and ate it all with some jarred tomatillo salsa, yogurt mixed with Cholula, and a lime wedge. I'm not all that into lettuce, but the meal as a whole was quite good.


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