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Category Archives: CSA

Link Buffet: False spring

April 27, 2015by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Philly folk often say that we don’t get much of a spring. Most years, the snow has barely melted when summer blasts in, leaving just a week or two of […]

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Artificial Flavors, CSA, Flavors, Link Buffet

Spinning Straw into Gold: How do you reduce or repurpose food waste?

May 27, 2014by Sara Davis 5 Comments

Many years ago, on another blog’s weekly CSA roundup, there was a little dust-up in the comment section about making vegetable stock. On one side were the commenters who made their […]

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Consumer Culture, Cooking, CSA, Playing with Food

CSA season starts again

April 30, 2014by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Today I picked up the first share of my CSA. It is now my fifth season enjoying the produce of Wimer’s Organics in Pennsylvania, although this year is a little […]

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Blog Notes, CSA

CSA Week 30: End-of-Season Reflection

November 24, 2013by Sara Davis 12 Comments

This past Wednesday was the last share of the season. From now until next May, my shopping and cooking habits will change drastically (not least because I will cease blogging […]

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CSA, Food in the City, What I'm Cooking

CSA Week 29: Wintery Simmering

November 20, 2013by Sara Davis 1 Comment

This week we got: carrots, a couple of yellow onions, a bunch of spinach, giant sweet potatoes, purple top turnips, gold potatoes, some beets, a garlic, a butternut squash, and lacinato kale. […]

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CSA, What I'm Cooking

CSA Week 28: Square roots

November 13, 2013by Sara Davis 1 Comment

This week we got: celeriac, a very leafy fennel, a red onion, a green bell pepper, a surprisingly big pile of parsnips, some white Kennebec potatoes, a long wand of rosemary, York apples, […]

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CSA, What I'm Cooking

CSA Week 27: Rutabagaminations

November 6, 2013by Sara Davis 6 Comments

This week we got: red butter lettuce, cilantro, leeks, a big rutabaga, some red potatoes, a garlic, spinach, green peppers, chard, and mustard greens. This is my half, minus of course the […]

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CSA, What I'm Cooking

CSA Week 26: Okay, now it’s autumn for real

October 30, 2013by Sara Davis 3 Comments

This week we got: red leaf lettuce, a red onion, bunched spinach, a garlic, White Hamon sweet potatoes, black radishes, a huge cabbage, cauliflower, and some kohlrabi. This is roughly my […]

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CSA, What I'm Cooking

CSA Week 25: Organic Fractals

October 23, 2013by Sara Davis 1 Comment

This week we got: about a dozen carrots, green leaf lettuce, a white onion, a few sweet potatoes, some ugly but wonderfully tart Gold Delicious apples, some kale, two broccolis, a […]

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CSA, What I'm Cooking

CSA Week 24: Unusually tinted vegetables

October 16, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

This week we got: three giant leeks, two little red butter lettuces, a bunch of scallions, a Hokkaido squash, some parsley, some green beans, a huge Napa cabbage, some rainbow chard, […]

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CSA, What I'm Cooking

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