Tonight I joined my parents for one of my favorite meals ever... fried mushrooms. That's right: morel mushrooms dipped in egg then rolled in crushed saltines and fried in a cast iron skillet of butter... oh so terrible for my figure, but OH SO WORTH IT! I feel really fortunate, actually, to be able to enjoy morel mushrooms each year. Mushroom hunting has been a family tradition for decades, and the fruits of the labor involved are more than worth the effort. Many pay way too much money to enjoy the wonderfulness that are morels; my family gets to spend time together, exercise and then indulge in fatty-foods... sounds like it couldn't be better!
While at my parents house tonight, I was telling them about my involvement in a CSA, and they asked about it and what I got. I realize that I haven't posted an update about the produce, so here goes:
I had never before realized just how different farm-fresh foods taste compared to foods shipped and ripened en route from Mexico... it's astounding! The bunch of green onions we received are a good 18 inches long, and so FLAVORFUL all the way to the tip. You know, most of us buy green onions at the grocery store and use about 6 inches of them since the rest is mushy and flavorless anyway; well, not these. These tasted like real onions all the way to the end... it was life changing!
I'm planning to make something delicious to take to my parents house on Sunday for Mother's Day, and I was telling my mom about the adorable carrots I found in my CSA bag... she thought it was hilarious that I called carrots adorable, but it's hard not to when they look just like the carrots found in Whinnie the Pooh cartoons. Alas... they may be enjoying a dish of adorable carrots come Sunday afternoon.
This is going to be a GREAT six months :)
I hope today was delicious and that tomorrow is just as grand!
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