Cooking out of the Box: Week 2

If you’re a CSA member in the Puget Sound, you’ve probably either started receiving your boxes or will be receiving them soon. Here’s what’s in our box this week and what we’re planning on doing with everything. We’ll try to post this list with recipes and menu ideas each week.

My CSA box this week

As a disclaimer, we’re members of the Growing Washington Local Choice Food Box and we’ve partnered with them this year to provide recipes to their CSA members. For this series, we’ll list out what’s in our box, but we’ll also try to list items that aren’t in our box but might be in yours.

Week 2 – June 22nd

• Salad Mix
• Beets
• Carrots (two types)
• Butterhead lettuce
• Sugar snap peas
• Radishes
• Spring onions
• Green garlic
• Cucumbers

At the beginning of the season, I love salads. Slice up the cucumber, the carrots, the spring onion, and the radishes and make yourself a delicious salad. Try our cucumber dill dressing on top.

The butterhead lettuce has large leaves that can be used to make salad wraps with chicken, beef, pork, or fish.

You can turn the cucumbers and spring onions into our Cool as a Cucumber appetizers, or you can just slice the cucumbers and sprinkle some of Secret Stash Salt’s Bloody Mary salt on them.

If you have a juicer, juice the cucumbers. Cucumber juice makes a very refreshing summer drink when the weather turns warm, though we might not have much chance of that this week.

You can saute the radishes in some butter for our butter poached radishes, or you can grate them into a slaw.

I recommend eating the sugar snap peas raw as a snack, maybe with some hummus.

How are you using your CSA contents this week?