Summer Fruits & Veggies

A couple of months ago, I got an email from Harris inquiring as to whether or not I would be interested in a summer fruit and veggies program going on in his office. Basically, every week from May to August, we would be getting one basket of fresh fruits, and one basket of fresh veggies, all from local farms. I enthusiastically said "yes!", and have been waiting for our first baskets ever since.

Luckily, the week of the baskets has arrived! I was so excited that I almost forgot to take a picture, but, luckily for you, I dragged everything back out and displayed it nicely!

This week we received: strawberries, and two varieties of apples (although I couldn't tell you which!), spinach, romaine lettuce, swiss chard, collard greens, beets, bok choy, green (spring?) onions, and flat Italian parsley!

I have already put the strawberries, spinach, and swiss chard to good use in smoothies, and romaine and spinach in a salad. I have never cooked a beet before, so I am not sure what I will do there, but I think I might try adding it to a smoothie - I have heard good things, will report back! I am going to cook down the collards later this week, hopefully, but I did use up the bok choy last night in my yummy spicy Asian noodles! I was already planning to cook that this week, and the bok choy was a nice surprise addition!

I am really excited to see what we continue to get throughout the summer, and excited to try some things I wouldn't normally buy (looking at you, beets!).