plus we get a few new experiences out of the deal. our first box including a kohlrabi, or german turnip, which looked somewhat like what would happen if a turnip had sex with a beet. tasted like a turnip though. we had a bunch of radishes the first week (and this week too!) and because we waited too long to use the lil' carrots, inadvertently discovered that awesome joy that is the roasted radish. i think i actually said "where've you been all my life?" we've had napa cabbage, which we mostly ate raw in salads because we weren't 100% sure what it was the first time, other than delicious. yesterday we got a couple of yellow zucchini. nope, not yellow squash, zucchini, which are a lovely, daffodil yellow color and very smooth to the touch. my interwebbing tells me it's a hybrid and tastes pretty much like a green one.

i think the most exciting new discovery is the garlic scape, the long green stemmy part of the garlic that most people discard - to their own detriment. it has a very mild flavor that's somewhere between garlic and green onion, but also a little bit buttery. we've gotten some in every box thus far, and i'm hoping that we'll get many more since garlic isn't harvested until later in the summer. they can be used any way garlic or onions would be. i cut the first bit in bigger pieces and roasted them with some veggies and last week's batch went into loaded potato salad instead of onions. dee-licious! having never seen them before, i'm not sure where you could get them.

yesterday's box had potatoes, an onion, garlic scapes, a napa cabbage, a head of some sort of lettuce (haven't examined), carrots, yellow zucchini, yellow squash, radishes, a head of cauliflower, peas, dill, basil and some other herb that is very dark purple.

i haven't yet mentioned the almost best part for me because i'm a weirdo: i LOVE getting food with dirt on it. perhaps this stems from being a farm kid and growing up with the crazy belief that food came from the ground, IN the dirt, not some candy-colored flourescent-lit nightmare store out of a delillo novel. food. complete with dirt and stems. *aaaaahhh*