bring on the alliums!

Today was the first pickup of our full membership in Inland Empire CSA. We got:

• 1 small head of romaine lettuce
• 4 heads of young garlic
• 1 small bag of salad mix
• 2 pints of strawberries
• 1 bunch of red dandelion greens
• small bunch of leeks
• 1 bunch of basil
• 3 small red onions (may be garlic, not sure)
• 2 white onions, not cured
• 2 green peppers
• 1 bag of new potatoes (small, mostly marble or golf ball sized)
• 2 baby zucchini
• 2 grapefruit
• 5 oranges
• 3 haas avocados

And the farmer was so happy that I had emailed him a list of my posts about the battle of the CSA boxes that he gave me two tangerines and enough patty pan squashes to make one of my favorite spring/summer meals, stuffed patty pan squashes.

Oh, and are you wondering what I've been doing with all the alliums we've been getting these past few weeks? I put them all in the food processor with some olive oil (organic, extra virgin, don't bother with anything else). When they were close to pureed, I put the pastey stuff into ice cube trays. When I need some now, I just take a cube out of the freezer.