Ghost Schlong

So I finally managed to use that creepy ass daikon radish that came into my life two-or-so weeks ago. I'm sorry, I mean absolutely no disrespect to the hardworking farmers who toiled over that daikon, or to the innocent plant itself, but that sucker was the spitting image of a ghost penis.

I wasn't about to bite into that thing, let alone swallow it, so I took the path of least resistance, and used it to make chicken stock:

I took some meaty/bony chicken pieces, a CSA onion, some CSA herb, the diakon and let it all go in the crock pot for approximately one billion hours.

Then I threw the chicken bones and the daikon in the good old fashioned trashola, added some noodles, and had the best bowl of chicken noodle soup I've ever tasted. For real:

I made this bread to go along with it:

The picture's blurry, but that's okay--the bread sucked. It was white bread with CSA dill and oven roasted tomatoes, which sounds like such a nice idea, but it was all wrong, damnit. All wrong!

I'm trying to sound like I'm on a soap opera.

Preserving Onions

Onions last a really long time--I'm not sure why, but they do. We got about 1,000,001 onions in last week's CSA share and we're expecting storage onions this week, so I decided to do something with what we already had.

Onions are one of the easiest vegetables to preserve and store. All you have to do is put on your kid's swimming goggles (this is the most important step--really), chop up a zillion onions, put them in Ziploc bags, and stick 'em in the freezer.

No blanching, no canning, so swearing, no anger. Just take a look at these:

You can do the same thing with green beans.

These pre-chopped onions would be great in omelets, chili, casseroles, on top of pizza, in pasta sauce...you get the idea.

Now stop it with the excuses. This crap is way easy.

Onions of Massive Proportions

I picked up our share from Long Meadow Farm this afternoon, and let me just say that I was completely blown away the unbelievably massive onions. When I brought them home, Jared had the exact same reaction. Actually, he was so impressed with the onions, that he wanted to catch 'em on film.

I think this picture gives a good reference point for the size of these suckers:

I mean really, aren't they enormous?

And perky?