Blog Fatigue

I was feeling pretty guilty for not blogging in a while but not wanting to do anything about it.  I came to blogger thinking I would blog and decided I'd rather procrastinate instead and read other peoples'.  Well, it turns out I'm not the only one with blogger fatigue.  It seems like many of us don't have time/desire/insert excuse here, which of course perversely makes me feel better.  Like I'm not the only one.

I don't know what's going on with everyone else, but I know a big part of my problem is good old-fashioned laziness.  I sit down to write a post, realize I forgot to grab my camera which I needed for the post, and go off to Facebook for a forum instead of getting up and retrieving said camera.  Sad, right?

I have a couple of crazy CSA adventures to write about.  (Although I am adamant about this not being a food blog.  For one thing, I'm not talented enough and I don't have a fancy enough camera to take nice pictures of the food like you see on food blogs.  I don't want to be compared to those people!)  The last couple of times I have forgotten to take a picture of the delivery, which has made me sad as it's pretty cool to see everything altogether.  Plus this weeks was HUGE and I wanted to share.  Tons and tons and tons of curly mustard, which I have a feeling we won't even like.  We haven't had much luck with greens yet (mustards and collards were gross), so we'll see.  I also a few random funny--or funny to me--pictures to post about. 

Even now, with my camera mere steps away, I don't want to get up and get it.  But I guess the time has come...

This has nothing to do with our CSA and everything to do with sheer yumminess.  My mom so kindly gave me a springform pan for my birthday and I finally broke it out and made triple chocolate cheesecake.  I was in heaven!  It was really easy to.  And, because you can never have enough chocolate,I added a chocolate ganache.  Which was also ridiculously easy.  Why have I not done this before???  This cheesecake recipe, and many others, here.  I didn't use the topping they suggested.  I went to allrecipes to find a ganache.

This was probably Nathan's favorite CSA dinner so far.  Well, CSA side dish anyway.  We had roasted red potatoes with rosemary from the CSA.  The red stuff is called rotkohl (said roe-cool) and for us English speakers is simply known as German red cabbage.  The red cabbage was CSA.  Very yummy stuff.  And then we had porkchops with palmetto onions from the CSA.  (I think I'm playing "how many times can she type CSA" with this caption!)  I love my mom's way of porkchops but wanted to try something different and this recipe was AMAZING!!!  When it says to throw in basically random spices, I added cardamom, rosemary, sage, and thyme because I have all of those and rarely use them.  I thought it would be fun to use different-than-usual spices.  To come with that combo, I found this awesome website that tells you what spices go with what meats.  And then I just hoped that those 4 would work together.  They did.  Very well.

This would be our epic fail CSA adventure:  borscht.  I had a friend in college who served his mission in Russia and he made borscht for us one time.  I LOVED it.  So when we got red cabbage, dill, and beets I knew I had to try to make it.  What I discovered was there are many, many, many variations out there.  And this one just didn't work for us.  I should have asked my sister-in-law Kathy first as she taught English in the Ukraine for a time and probably has an awesome recipe.  But I remembered that fact as I was finishing ours.  

Another borscht picture.  You serve it with a dollop of sour cream, which did improve the test but not enough to make me want to eat it again.   It was pretty much the color shown here (maybe a tad brighter), although the picture isn't the greatest.  Very, very pretty if not necessarily appetizing.

What would a blog post be without Wen?  I found him using Nathan's pjs as a pillow and thought it was just too cute.

Has anybody else ever had a banana do this?  I grabbed it out of the fruit bowl and noticed that it had split without me touching it.  I found it rather odd so of course I took a picture of it.