First bag of goodies

We (that being Paul, Tom, Mollie, and I) decided to create a multi user blog to share our experience with buying a share in a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm. What is a CSA? Basically you pre pay for veggies from a local farm and get a bag of whatever is in season once a week for about 5 months. We thought it would be a great way to support local farms, get some organic veggies, and learn to prepare vegetables we have never seen or heard of before.

So this is my first post and my first time blogging in about 6 years so I'm a little rusty!

Paul and I split a share with Tom and Allison and got our first batch of vegetables today. We got arugula, basil, beet greens (swiss chard sorta), bok choi, garlic scapes, kohlrabi, lettuce and parsley in our bag and hastily split it up 50/50. No knife was handy so Tom and I quickly negotiated...he and Allison would retain custody of the bok choi and Paul and I would be the proud owners of a crazy purple alien looking vegetable known as kohlrabi.

Got home and did the most logical thing...made a hasty salad! Took the lettuce (not iceberg...not sure what it is exactly but very nice subtle taste and texture) and mixed it with a bit of arugula. The arugula was the strongest tasting arugula I've ever tasted...alone it was almost to strong to eat. Ripped it up and mixed it with its less strong tasting cousin and washed it all up. It tasted great, we were very pleased!

By far the most interesting veggie is the kohlrabi we got. Neither of us have ever had it before and haven't a clue what to do with it. I'll post a picture once I figure that out...either way I threw the picture up on Facebook and I think it generated more replies then anything I've ever posted before. So I'll be sure to do a bit of research and make something interesting with it....