May 2008 Archives
Just a couple of weeks ago, we went to the Dan Zanes concert and had a rockin' good time. This morning, Lisa opens up the paper and sees and ad for something called "Disney Music Block Party Tour." Featuring Dan Zanes! And They Might Be Giants! And Ralph's World! Jesus Mary and Joseph! Get on the internet and order the tickets already!
Our only disappointment is that Barenaked Ladies are not playing at our local venue, only up on Long Island while we're in KC. Still, we are lucky enough to be one of the two dates that TMBG are playing, so we'll have to make do.
Yeah, we're a little too excited about kid music these days. FYI to our family and friends in Michigan: the tour hits Meadow Brook Tuesday, August 19th and Wednesday, August 20th, but you "only" get Dan Zanes and Ralph's World (and the two other minor acts I've never heard of).
Our second CSA share came in on Tuesday. From our first, we still need to use the garlic scape, and the radishes were only somewhat used. We did make a nice arugula salad with balsamic vinegar and strawberries, and used up all the salad greens, but not the actual lettuce. More on that in a minute.
In our second share, we got a ton of strawberries, which is, of course, awesome. We also got a huge head of lettuce, more salad greens, mint, snow peas and turnips. We're going to end up using the lettuce from the last two weeks on Monday for our Memorial Day barbecue. We're also going to use the mint for making mojitos, yum! So really our only puzzler is turnips. Lisa borrowed a cookbook from a neighbor, which has a bunch of turnip recipes, so we'll see how we like them.
We're pretty happy with it so far, and we're still in the veggie-sparse season, so I can only imagine things getting better. It's kind of strange not having too much to buy at the farmer's market on the weekend...
We picked up our first Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) share yesterday. Our farmers live near Washington's Birthplace in the Northern Neck area of Virginia. They got about 3 inches of rain in an hour the other day, and a whole lot of stuff washed out, including their main driveway. Luckily, they managed to extricate themselves in time to make the trip up to Falls Church to meet all of their clients. They had beer, wine, cheese and other snacks as a mini-celebration of the first CSA of the year. We met our farmers Becky and Lawrence and chatted with them and some other people for a while before picking up our box and heading home.
In our first box, we got mixed salad greens, arugula, butter lettuce, garlic scape, French breakfast radishes, bok choy, and our favorite, strawberries! They also had some turnips we could have taken, but we're not huge fans, so we passed on them.
So we're going to be eating more salad than we usually would, but that's okay, since we just bought some fancy basil balsamic vinegar at the farmers market last week. We also will need to figure out what to do with the radishes (raw with sea salt and rustic bread has been suggested) and garlic scape. Any suggestions?
