It's Thursday around 6, which means it's time to run screaming from the horror that is... THE CSA BOX POST.

A shockingly light week of discards, thanks to giving away broccoli, carrots, and cucumber to friends. If they get eaten, or if they get thrown away by someone else, they don't count. I did find a forgotten tiny pattypan from two weeks ago in the back of the fridge, along with some dessicated scallions, but other than that and a small amount of lettuce and arugula, it's been good. I'll be salvaging half the napa cabbage from two weeks ago, but I haven't technically stripped the spotted leaves yet, so that doesn't count either.

Of course, I did have to do an Emergency Pickling of last week's remaining cucumbers, and I'm in the midst of prepping the giant pile of green beans for freezing.

We're starting to move into pepper and tomato season, which is fine by me.

• A few sprigs of basil from the bonus box. Which reminds me that I'm long overdue to hit the Farmer's Market, buy a ton, and make the year's worth of pesto.
• Beets! Beets keep. I like beets because they keep.
• Three regular tomatoes in three different colors, plus about 3/4 pint of cherry tomatoes.
• A bag of mixed stiff greens that I can only assume is the "saute mix" from the list.
• A small bag of green beans to be snipped and added to the colander-full awaiting blanching momentarily.
• A lot of sage. More sage that I can use in the herb-storage timeframe, that's for damn sure.
• Three more fucking cucumbers
• Two good-sized pattypan squashes for, as they say, teh winz.
• One tiny head of garlic
• A couple of fresh cippolini onions that I mistook for honking heads of fresh garlic
• Peppers! One green bell, one banana, three jalapeno.
• One head of cauliflower
• Five ears of sweet corn, the smallest of which I think is going to go with dinner tonight.

I'm seeing at least one curry in my near future, what with the cauliflower and the peppers. Honestly, this is a great box this week - a lot of utility staples that I can incorporate into regular meals. I'm only going to have to make a small effort to incorporate the sweet corn, the cauliflower, and the beets into future meals.

The corn is especially tricky because I know that the fresher it is, the better it is, so I'm wondering if I can really go through five cobs in a short period of time. Maybe I can do something with cutting the kernels off and either using them or freezing them.