One awesome feature of our CSA is that when they have an overabundance of produce, it gets offered to the CSA members at wholesale prices! This week blueberries were in an overabundance, and we have plans… boundless beautiful blueprints for our box’s blueberry bounty.
Tasty Contents
- 1 Pint Blueberries
- 1 Bunch Chives
- 1 Bunch Basil
- 1 Head Lettuce
- 1 Head Bock Choy
- 1 Quart Pickling Cucumbers
- 1 Pound Snap Peas
- 1 Quart Zucchini
The Prepping
First things first, we needed to wash, dry and properly store the veggies, to get it to last all week.
As we’ve done the last three weeks, the lettuce will get its usual treatment. We immediately rinsed and separated the lettuce into small batches. Each batch we put into the salad spinner, and spun to help dry. Once all batches had had their turn, we dried out the salad spinner, put all the lettuce back into the spinner, secured the top and placed in the fridge for storage. The head of lettuce this week also seems like a reasonable amount.
The cucumbers, zucchini, and bock choy were rinsed, dried, placed in a plastic produce bag, and put into the crisper section of our fridge.
The snap peas once again came in a plastic bag. These we just put directly into the fridge and plan to rinse as we use them. Similarly, we put the blueberries into the fridge to wash as we use them.
The chives and basil got the same treatment. We’ve stored them in the fridge, standing upright in a mug with a few inches of water. We’ll wash those too once we start using them.
The Planning
With an over abundance of blueberries, we have decided to make some jam. We have almost all of the things someone would need for canning, as we’ve done this before in the past. So now, all we need to do is settle on a recipe!
There Will Be Salads
Salads! Of course. We just went a few days without salads, so they are starting to sound good again. So we plan to dive into salads with lettuce, snap peas, cucumbers, and chive infused olive oil. We’ll add to these salads other tasty things in our fridge, of course.
And Spring Rolls
After a week off from spring rolls, we are feeling up for making them again. We still have the rice wraps, and we plan to use lettuce and basil as the leafy bed of some new creation. Perhaps we will bake some marinated tofu, and add thin strip of carrots and cucumbers.
Blueberries
We are thinking we have enough to make about eight 8oz jars of blueberry jam. We just need to get our canning equipment out of the basement and cleaned off with warm soapy water. We will have to carve out a few hours to pull this off!
Zucchini
Last weeks zucchini recipes all turned out wonderful. This week, we’ll continue using the zucchini spiralizer. We have a spaghetti squash hanging out in our storage bin, and we’re thinking that a dish will come together mixing the spaghetti squash with zucchini noodles and homemade pesto. The bunch of basil is so fragrant, we have hopes that it will turn into a wonderful pesto.
Chives
Yep, we got more chives. Our pesto will probably get a few sprigs of chives added to it, as well as the spaghetti squash surprise we are planning. If that does not use them all up, they may end up in the veggie freezer bag.
Summary
Our New England based blueberries are exploding with the flavor and sweetness of blueberries. These are perfect for a couple jars of jam. A few easy meals will definitely get us through those veggies we have been eating for a few weeks, so this week will be about all about the blueberries.
CSAeats 
Awesome blog you two!! Can’t wait to be updated !!
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