CSA & Market Report for June 16th

Today started out cool and sunny; we're rapidly progressing to hot and stuffy, but the morning was beautiful.  I even think I got a little bit of sun on my pasty self.  I made it out to the market so early, everyone was still setting up.  No matter.  I had to get home early to get my nap in before work.

My CSA box this week contained two nice big zucchinis - I love zucchini.  New readers will be really bored with zucchini between now and autumn squash season, and I'd like to apologize in advance.  The truth is, that's part of the challenge of eating seasonally and locally - finding new ways to use the same ingredients.  How else do you think zucchini bread was invented?  Watermelon rind pickles?  Anyway, the box also contained my 1/2 dozen eggs, lettuce mix, garlic scapes (the immature shoot of a garlic plant, the pretty, loopy plant pictured on top of everything else above), some baby broccoli, some big fat spring onions, and snow peas.  I also bought 2 quarts of the best strawberries I've ever eaten, which I plan to eat at work this evening.  I have to have something to look forward to. 

Of course, there were Toby Run shitake mushrooms, and some more broccoli, cabbage and sugar snap peas from Wishwell Farms. 

Then it was on to Worthington, where I breezed through, stopping only for some ground chicken breast from Oink Moo Cluck, and a nice big bunch of beets from a new farm this year - the Golden Beet Farm.  The beets also contained this tiny little bug:

I then cooked up this pasta, yet another variation on the "I Love Shitake Mushrooms and Sugar Snap Pea" theme.  Ziti tossed with a tiny bit of bacon, ground chicken, shitakes and sugar snaps, a little red pepper flake and just the smallest dash of cream.  Yum!