Week 5: Beat it, beets.

When I went to pick up my share this week, my veggie buddy, Cindan, with whom I share my share of vegetables promised me there were no radishes in my bag, even though it might look like it. This is a good thing - we are still on a mission to find a good way to eat the ones that we do have.

When I peeped in the bag, I spied the radish imposters: beets. I have eaten beets on a couple of occasions, and once was the "lucky" recipient of someone's home canned pickled beets. The pickled beets were a disaster, and one gastric frontal eruption from eating these canned nasties was enough to put me off of beets. For a VERY LONG time.

Needless to say, the beets didn't make the bus ride home with me. They did, however, go home with Dave, who only has a quarter share of veggies and was beet-less.

Seeing as how we are mostly caught up, I am only going to post what we received in our share. If we've used the veggie, it will be noted.

Apart from the beets, this is what we got:

Week 5:

• Green cabbage: a quarter of this was chopped for our pork stirfry. It was pretty tasty!
  
  
• Butter lettuce: Added to the salad pot. We have a ton of greens from this week and last, and I know I will be taking salad to work in addition to eating a lot of it at dinner.
  
  
• Green onions/scallions: One of my favorite things to do with green onions I learned when I was a bad food worker in charge of the Sunday Morning Buffet at Country Kitchen. In order to have a more upscale appearance, I would make mice out of pears. The whiskery ends of green onions were noses for mice, and the long, thin tapered points made great tails.
  
  Green onions lend themselves to so many different garnish possibilities - I want to find something out of the ordinary to do with them. Ideas?
  
  
• Chinese cabbage: This is one of those veggies that I have to investigate further...
  
  
• Kale: When you're little and staying with gramma, daytime TV is a death sentence. One of the brighter points was watching cooking shows after lunch and in between the soaps and afternoon cartoons. I remember watching The Galloping Gourmet with Graham Kerr, and Good ol' Graham was loosing his mind over how delicious and tasty the kale was. I hope he's right.
  
  
• Fava beans: The Celebrity Chef is "eyeing" up someone's liver.
  
  
  We're going avoid jail time and go with the Chicken and Fava soup.

Note from Otis: I don't even know the last time I met a census taker. Besides, the soup kicks ass.