We got summer squash and strawberries!!

It's amazing how dirty the food comes when it comes from a farm, and not the grocery store, or even the farmers market. Maybe dirty isn't the right word. It's very soily??

Treat for the week was some fresh strawberries, which taste so sweet and amazing straight from the farm. I have some in my garden too, so we'll be eating loads of them tonight for a before bed snack.

I made a great salad with the lettuces, snap peas & summer squash. It's a salad I've made a zillion times with just squash. But since I only got one in my CSA share, I supplemented the lettuces.

I used baby lettuce and spinach. Then I shaved the squash using a vegetable peeler. Toasted some slivered almonds. De-strung the snap peas and rough chopped them into like 3 pieces. I added some fresh regular peas from my garden too. I tossed this all, dressed it with a vinaigrette made from fresh lemon juice, red wine vinegar, dijon mustard, salt, pepper and olive oil. Tossed this all together then topped with shaved parmesan that I shaved using the vegetable peeler. It was delicious!!

salad with shaved squash, toasted almonds, snap peas, shaved parmesan

I finally used the rhubarb yesterday. I basically sauteed it in butter, adding sugar and cardamon powder, which is so delicious. It can be found in a Middle Eastern store, or maybe the Korean vegetable store in Mt. Kisco (Mt. Kisco Farms). If you don't have, use cinnamon, but cardamon powder is really something! I sprinkled on sugar, tossed in a few sliced strawberries. and sauteed more. Then it was so good, I just ate it plain. I was trying to save it for yogurt the next morning, but it didn't make it. My general thought is that you can saute almost anything in butter with sugar and it pretty much has to taste great!