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I'm glad you guys enjoyed my whiskey-fueled post from last night. :-) I re-published a really old post from my first blog that tells more of the story. We didn't start dating right after Casablanca. We did a lot of fun stuff together that first fall, almost always in groups. Elwood loves to get people together to do interesting things and I was a frequent tagger-along, but I assumed I wasn't smart enough or cool enough for him to be romantically interested in me. I dated someone else for a couple of months; Elwood and I started dating very shortly after Steve and I broke up.

Tonight, quickly, I am posting about greens. And radishes. I love the idea of our CSA -- eating seasonally, eating locally grown organic vegetables, supporting a small business here in my own area code. It all sounds good. But the reality of using a CSA share with picky children in the picture has not been so rosy. We've eaten almost of all of the food we've received. It hasn't been easy. Especially here in the fall, when the drought has eased and the shares are bigger, we are drowning in greens and radishes and turnips.

I have some good tricks for using up greens. If I steam-saute a batch of them one night, the big people will eat some while they're fresh and everyone will eat them the next night in quiche. If I get the greens/potato balance right, everyone will eat greens pureed into potato soup -- especially if I make rolls for dipping. Gumbo is another option, although it's really labor-intensive.

It's certainly easier to steam a head of broccoli.

A disadvantage to a CSA is that the stuff that's in season for the farmers in your area is also the stuff that's likely to be thriving in a home vegetable garden. My greens problem has been amplified by the fact that I have chard and collards growing well in my own little garden in addition to the funky greens coming my way in abundance every Tuesday.

Oh my GOODNESS, talk about your first-world problems. Oh, dear, I have too many beautiful organic vegetables to feed my family. Help me, I have a surfeit of arugula.

Still, I think we'll all be a little relieved when the CSA deliveries are over. I am sure the boys would vote unanimously not to do it again next year -- they'd say that grocery story veggies win hands down. And I'm not sure how much energy I want to expend trying to encourage my little mainstreamivores to be locavores.

PS Do you have any radish recipes? Lay them on me.