The weather around here is strangely cool—Monday’s high was 65 degrees Fahrenheit at a time when 85 or 95 would be entirely unsurprising. Still, the produce in Monday’s bag from the Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance reinforced the idea that the seasons, they are a-changing.
As you can see, we still have top o’ the summer crops—the [...]
Tags:CSA·Kansas weather·local food
All right. Back to business writing about food. During the week in software sludge, I still managed to eat, and sometimes very well. I even took some pictures. So as not to let them go to waste, here are some highlights from last week:
CSA delivery
Lettuce, spinach, kale, mesclun. Perhaps you see a pattern there. That’s [...]
Tags:CSA·kitchens·Lawrence·potlucks·spring produce
There, amid this week’s CSA bag full of greenery, was Purple Passion, a deeply purple asparagus variety.
Even though the Rolling Prairie farmers had green asparagus, too, and even though purple asparagus in my experience turns green just like the other stuff, I couldn’t resist choosing the purple.
I always get excited by the deliveries, but this [...]
Tags:asparagus·broccoli·CSA·greens·lettuce·rice·Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance·stir-fry