You spin me 'round and 'round and ....

First, more photos of May! Please click here to see more of the photos from last Sunday's brunch with David and Jen. (As ever, shout out to Jen for her photog skills.) You don't need to sign in -- just click the button that says "View Slideshow."

Second, the first Brookfield Farm CSA share has arrived! We're all quite excited here in Chez Ferry. The pick up went (relatively) smoothly. It's at one of the local co-housing collectives, which wasn't quite made clear to me when I read the postcard, so I knocked on a strange door or two before I sussed it out.

But once May and I picked up the box, we raced right home (stopping off at Porter Sq. Books to get "Putting Food By," a book on, well, putting food by) to do something with it! The box contained chives, spring turnips (!), and French radishes, as well as many and various greens -- butter, romaine, mesclun, new spinach, and some unidentified dark green that may have been collards. Never one to shy from a challenge, I picked the unidentified greens and went to work.

I got some spinach and scallion pasta from Dave's. While that was cooking, I fried up sweet pork sausages from Sessa's. Letting the crumbled sausage drain, I sweated some onions and garlic, then tossed the greens (washed, dried, and chiffonade-ed, naturally) into the hot pan with a little bit of sherry vinegar. Tossed together, it was a lovely dinner.

Since I'm trying to entice all of you to go local, I'm going to tell you every fabulous dish that I make from Brookfield Farm. And you're going to drool. And maybe that will help you get into the CSA mode.

That said, finally, we're trying something new. Jen made a little movie of May swinging her arms wildly. I'm going to try to embed the video. Just click on the picture below to make it work. (In theory.) It's sideways but I don't know how to fix that. So tilt your head 90 degrees to the left.