It’s no secret that Nora Ephron is one of my heroes. The world is diminished without her.
CSA – Week 5
Guess what happens when you go on vacation?
Yep. You miss your veggies and you have no exciting photos to blog. I donated my box to my neighbor and she spent a happy evening blanching the harvest for freezer storage.
I did find this link though. And it looks like I may have enough squash and zucchini to try every dang one of these recipes before the summer is over.
Be aware that one of these recipes is for zucchini cupcakes. You heard me. Cupcakes!
CSA – Week 4
This week we got peaches!!!
I made this peach cobbler and dropped half of it into the hot oven when the buttery casserole dish literally jumped out of my hands. It smelled great though. Next week, I will try again.
Note: I pretty much only use Paula Deen’s dessert recipes. They have never failed me and they all start with one stick of butter. It just works, people.
We also received carrots, red cabbage, green beans, onions, strawberries and…
zucchini and squash.
Let me just say that I am sick of zucchini and squash already. Here’s the recipe I am planning to try though. Don’t worry, it’s not a Pinterest recipe so your chance of success is good.
The cheese this week is a marinated goat cheese. It looks like two discs of awesome floating in a jar of buttery, herbed oil.
We did get around to trying the spreadable goat cheese. The serving suggestion was to eat it drizzled with honey.
Oh. Dear. God.
This stuff is gonna be served at heaven’s cafeteria. Yowza!!!
CSA WARNING
Oh merciful savior…
DO NOT try the strawberry recipe from the last post.
Never in the history of recipes has anything turned out so badly. Oh good grief…
I admit that I am not the greatest cook but the recipe was pretty simple and I’m not sure how this could be my fault. The texture (once I scraped them off the pan) was about what I thought they should be but the flavor was almost indescribable. It was like Satan had declared war on my taste buds. Sour, bitter and just horrible. The worst part is that during the three hours they were in the oven, the house smelled like a strawberry fairyland. How could something smell so good and taste so bad?
At this point I have to assume that no recipes on Pinterest are any good. I am at a 0% success rate with recipes that have people gushing praise all over the Internet. I’m no master chef but I can’t possibly be such a bad cook that I am screwing up every “The World’s Best fill in the blank” recipe.
CSA – Week Three
Wash and drain beans and let them dry well. Trim off both ends of your beans.
Dip/Dressing to accompany beans (make ahead of time)