Week 6

My trip to Colorado was glorious. But first, this:



Purple carrots!
Hot pink turnips!
Baby zucchini
Ruby chard
Kohlrabi
Lettuce

This is the most cheerful box so far. I've never bought a kohlrabi before, so I'll have to figure out what to do with it, plus another turnip recipe is needed. As good as the slaw was last week with the carrots, these are all too pretty to muddle up. It's getting pretty hot out here, so some chilled marinated zucchini sounds pretty good, maybe on a sandwich? with some nice cheese? I like where this is going.


And now, about last week's vacation. I managed to just miss monsoon season, and it was sunny and mild the whole 5 days. By some other coincidence, everyone I wanted to see was in town and available, which made for a busy week. I caught up with lots of friends while catching up on my Mexican chow consumption. I had nearly forgotten about how lots of places put a bowl of mystery cabbage on the table with the chips and salsa, and some even put a different mystery cabbage on the side of your plate. I need to remember this stuff for when cabbage arrives in my box. I also need to learn to make green chili, because they just don't smother everything with it here like they do out West.


Nor do they serve burritos on pizza-sized plates.

Then there were Wahoo's fish tacos, which would put the taco place by my house out of business in one afternoon, easy. And a dazzling afternoon spent eating lunch on the deck at Fossil Trace golf course, watching the hang-gliders take off from Mt. Zion. And multiple trips to the Golden Diner for good measure.

As hard as it was to come back from such an excellent vacation, I've got a little something to look forward to - this weekend I'll be on the Outer Banks! I'll report back real soon about my attempts to eat my weight in seafood, plus the fate of this week's vegetables.