What's in the CSA box

C and I got a CSA subscription this year with Triple Cord CSA, a Mennonite farm in Aylmer, Ontario. We signed up for and are splitting a half share of fresh, seasonal, organic produce which is enough to feed two adults. Every Tuesday, C goes to pick up the box and it's like Christmas, wondering what we'll get this week. Here's a peek into last week's box:

- Boston lettuce
- Green beans
- Asparagus
- Rhubarb
- Radish
- Green onion
- Bok Choy
- Strawberries (check out the mutant octo-strawberry!)
- Red leaf lettuce
- Spinach
- Kohlrabi
- Beets

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Tuesday night's Matriciana

This is a meal that was promised to me last Saturday but didn't appear until Tuesday night. Why, you ask? Traditionally a Matriciana is served with a type of pasta called bucatini, but C prefers to make it with a fresh spelt rigatoni from a shop on Dufferin street called Bologna, where the Italian ladies whip it up daily. Except on Saturdays they close early and C didn't get there in time. The pasta's a bit pricey, but in my opinion the best fresh pasta one can buy in Toronto. Anywho, the two of us pigs were starving last night and ended up devouring the entire pot of Matriciana. It was fantastic, and so worth the wait. I was full after the first serving but kept being lured back for more. The chewy, slightly nutty spelt pasta and the sauce with savoury bits of bacon did me in. We cleansed our palates after the pasta frenzy with a fresh salad with vegetables from our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) box: butter lettuce, peas, grated kohlrabi, orange mint (from my balcony). Oh, and only second to C's Matriciana is the one at Lupa in New York. Check it.

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