I enjoyed reading Shanna's funny post about how having a CSA share is like—but really not at all like—being a parent. Not that I would know, but I did feel some weighty responsibility when I picked up last week's share, which included a massive head of napa cabbage. It filled my bike basket entirely. After we split it with our CSA share sharing buddies, it was a much more manageable size, but even still, it's been napa cabbage salad every day over here.
I can also relate to the pressure to do something interesting and creative with the spoils. I tried to make this lovely chard and onion galette, but it was an epic, epic failure. Firstly, my dough didn't bind... entirely possible because I used mystery flour instead of white flour (I'm trying to use it up!), and coconut oil instead of butter (but it says 'use like butter'!)... in any case, I ended up with a non-doughy, but still tasty, crumbly, cracker-like base, on which I piled the sauteed chard and onion, since there was zero hope of this "cracker" wrapping around anything... It was not good, people. Not good. Mark powered through it like a trooper; just took a few glasses of milk to help wash it down...
Random aside about my bike basket:
The basket was kicking around the house, and I needed something to help carry home the CSA bounty. So Mark attached it to my bike, and it is the *new awesome.* I mean, my paniers are great, but they've got nothing on this basket. However, I am under strict orders not to fill it with kittens. Hrmph. Other than carrying CSA bounty, what good is a bike basket if you can't fill it with kittens?!
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