Slaw-not-slaw

I am so glad the CSA season is finally here. I tend to be a more adventurous cook when every week I bring home a box of unknown ingredients and need to fit a menu around them. Not to mention I eat lots more healthy stuff than during the carb-loading winter months, when all I crave is comfort food.

This week among the bounty was a head of cabbage. Now I’m not much of a cabbage eater; the obvious dish is cole slaw, which has never much appealed to me. But in digging through blogland I came across a recipe that looked to be worth trying. So good! Not a creamy-type cole slaw; really a cabbage salad with tomatoes, peanuts and a lime-olive dressing. We grilled up a couple of burgers and mounded the salad on the side. So tasty. I might learn to enjoy cabbage yet. Later this week: rustic cabbage soup.

Huh?

Did I miss the day in Sunday school where we learned that graffiti is OK as long as it’s Biblical?

In the Groove

Before the arrival of baby G, I would now and then have what I called my “domestic diva” days. Days when fresh bread got made, knitting projects were finished, and the list of household tasks got noticeably smaller. I hadn’t really had one since, until Sunday.

Fresh bread got made:

(this is a recipe from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day; I can’t say enough about how much I love this book! This is the only way I can manage fresh bread with the baby.)

I finished spinning and washing some yarn:

This is from Martha’s Vineyard Fiber Farm; it’s a delicious cormo/mohair mix. I think I want to dye it but I’m not sure yet.

The boy and I took a nice walk down to river, where we saw this:

Only two this week. Last week there were six!

And asparagus risotto for dinner, with the asparagus from our first CSA box of the season.

There was strawberry-rhubarb crunch too, with the fruit from the CSA, but we ate it all before I could get a picture.

It felt really good to have a day like that. It raised my ambitions for this weekend.