which_chick | (no subject)

Lately, I've been eating things I don't really know what are as a result of the CSA thing I joined a couple of months ago. I can tell tomato, potato, basil, yellow and green summer squash, cukes, onions, garlic, y'know, your standard veggie offerings. But then they also give me things like, well, like Big Green Leaves With Rainbow Stems. Not real sure what the hell those are. They're bitter greens, so wilted, with butter, over rice, as that's my standard treatment for bitter greens. (Note: I like bitter greens. No problems there.) If I had to guess, the Big Green Leaves with Rainbow Stems would be some sort of chard. (It's not rhubarb, which has inedible leaves. First, it's way too late in the season for rhubarb. Second, the stems are not big enough. Rhubarb stems are big like celery.) Whatever it is, it ain't bad.

I'm getting a lot more produce this time of year than I got at the outset of the season. August is a time of ripening, obviously. That's why Faulkner's book is called Light in August instead of, say, Light in February. It's all to do with the ripening. Anyway, I'd like to note that it's a lot of work for one person to use up four cukes in a week. I simply don't usually eat that many cucumbers. Abundance is nice, but yowza.