jun 5 grocery challenge / csa week 1

this week's harvest:

rhubarb - 1 bunch
bok choi - 1 bunch
chinese cabbage - 1 head
red leaf lettuce - 1 head
romaine lettuce - 1 head
spring kale - 1 bunch
garlic chives - 1 bunch
mustard greens - 1 bunch
oregano - 1 bunch

menu:

oriental cabbage salad (basically an asian style slaw) from greens glorious greens**
rhubarb cake
curried mustard greens (also from GGG)
tossed salad

**i highly recommend this book. it is full of good info on storing and preparing all sorts of greens, as well as great recipes. i picked this up on a whim at a book sale some years ago and never used it much, until last year's CSA season blessed us with a plethora of greens of every size and shape, many of which i'd never used before. now it is my go-to guide for greens!

notes:

i had initially planned to make raw kale salad as well, but the bunch of mustard greens was smaller than i had anticipated, so i ended up adding the kale to the curry, which was great.

we also got a surprise bunch of mizuna, which i added to the slaw with the bok choy, cabbage and garlic chives.

i traded the oregano for an extra bunch of rhubarb.

my radishes are ready to pick so those will go in the tossed salad as well!

shopping list:

lime (for the kale salad i didn't make)
orange (for cookies)
red onions
ginger
sweet potato
carrots
cilantro
brown sugar
chickpeas
yogurt
butter
eggs
chocolate chips
pumpkin seeds
OJ
apples
crackers
peanut butter

grocery bill:

$45 (whoops!) maybe i'll do better next week?