Pre CSA Pick Up Panic

This afternoon marked the first pick up day for the Ditmas Park CSA. Jen and I gamely grabbed our bags, hopped the Q and headed down to Cortelyou Rd in the rain to pick up our share. To be totally honest, I'd been kind of nervous about the whole pounds of produce thing (what was I thinking buying five hundred dollars worth of vegetables?!?). Looking through Annie and Young's crop from yesterday helped a lot though. Lettuce? Ok, that I can do. Rhubarb? Oooooh. I think I see a pie in my future. Garlic scapes? Yes please (Annie-look at Dorie Greenspan's garlic scape pesto).

And then-

Radishes?

(gulp)

What do I do if we get radishes?

Cue the downward spiral. (What have I done? What do I do if we get pounds of radishes? I don't like radishes. Radishes are weird. They look like deranged Sesame Street puppets. With hair. What if we get all weird veggies no one has heard of? What if I hate them all? ) This whole CSA thing suddenly seemed like a very, very baaaaad idea.

"Jen...you like radishes,right?"

Luckily it would seem that the Brooklyn CSA is the much more homogenized and less inventive cousin of the New York CSA. In other words: totally non-threatening. Score.

We got:

Tomatoes.

Green Lettuce

Red Lettuce

Kale

Onions

Green Onions

Sugar Snap Peas

Zucchini

Potatoes

Mint

Cilantro

Parsley

I'm thinking cilantro lime shrimp for dinner tomorrow. Or cilantro chickpea salad.

Mmmmm. Cilantro.