Veggie Delivery...

So, after a week of delays due to the deluge that has swamped the state of Michigan...we got our second CSA delivery this week. Thankfully, nothing with neurotoxins this time. But an interesting array of stuff:

Radishes: three kinds, including a really long one that looks like a red carrot. Can't discern a difference in taste though... They also included an extra bunch of radish tops---the greens at the top, which I have not tried to cook up yet...

Green garlic: As noted before, yummy.

Baby Swish chard

Sage

Well, this is definitely going to push me to expand as a cook.

I made a radish and almond pesto with about half of the radishes and green garlic. Considering it was my first pesto---not bad. Much better when I diluted it down tonight with more olive oil. And the green garlic made a yummy stuffing with shallots and a little more of the radish for barbecued chicken thighs.

The sage will be good in a brown butter sauce on pasta this week.

No idea what to do with the Swiss chard. One of those things I should have tried ages ago, but just never got around to it. That is the value of this whole experiment---forcing us to try new stuff...

...and it makes having a copy of Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything really, really helpful...