CSA Week 3

Our third box from Culinary Delights Farms - from left, snap peas, spinach, red lettuce, green lettuce, ???, green onions, baby potatoes and radishes. 

This time I washed everything and wrapped it in Ziploc bags and put it in the refrigerator. I was washing the baby potatoes and suddenly I thought of how a box like this would look to the father and son in Cormac McCarthy's book "The Road". I ate one, trying to picture what the feelings would be like to find something like that in the midst of such a dead world and have its life become part of you. I know - more overthinking. Here's what you should do to store these vegetables:

To Store	Do this	Wash first	Use by
snap peas	Remove strings and store in plastic bag or blanch and freeze	No (too late)	7-14 days
spinach	in plastic bag in crisper	No (too late)	3-4 days
red lettuce	Bag in refrigerator (don't store with apples, pears or bananas	Yes	a few (?) days
green lettuce	Bag in refrigerator (don't store with apples, pears or bananas	Yes	a few (?) days
green onions	Bag in fridge	Doesn't seem to matter	5 days
baby potatoes	Indeterminate - dry and dark , 45-50 degrees but do NOT store in plastic (too late)	Yes	2 weeks
radishes	Remove tops and store in plastic bags in refrigerator	Indeterminate	2 weeks

Did I mention how much I hate tables in Blogger?

Sources:

• http://www.foodreference.com/html/artradish.html
• http://www.merexfoodcorp.com/cons_nutrional.html