Domesticity courtesy of our CSA

Spring through fall, our favorite way to spend a Saturday morning is strolling through one of the local farmers markets. There are quite a few in Central Ohio, but our favorite is the Worthington Farmers Market. This year we bought a CSA share from PJ's All Natural Farms. The two-person share was an amazing deal. It works out to around $13 per week and we get a crate full of veggies, fruit and eggs. Yum!

This past week we had some beautiful produce. We got beets, green beans, 4 ears of corn, a tomato, a green pepper, blueberries, an onion, red potatoes and half a dozen HUGE eggs. So I started baking...

Blueberry Zucchini Muffins 
adapted from allrecipes.com

Gathered my fresh ingredients.

yummy veggies

Added shredded zucchini to the batter.


Stirred in the blueberries.


Modification to the original recipe: baked at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes for the muffins and 40 minutes for the small loaf.

Definitely some of the best muffins I've ever made! The recipe called for more sugar than I prefer to use, so next time I'll be trying some modifications to that. Otherwise, this recipe gets rave reviews!

Beet, Goat Cheese & Walnut Salad

As a child, I loved picked beets. My mom did too, so we had them around all the time. A few years ago I had a beet and goat cheese salad for the first time. I think beets and goat cheese are the PERFECT combination. And, since Matt does NOT like beets, when they showed up in our CSA, I knew they were all mine!!!
I scrubbed and trimmed them and put them on the stove to boil away for about 30 minutes.

Then I pulled off the skin (surprisingly easy!) and diced them up

I added them to a salad of mixed baby greens from my garden, goat cheese, walnuts and a vinaigrette made of  evoo, aged balsamic and lemon juice.

So easy, and probably the yummiest thing I have ever packed for lunch!

We had way too much corn on the cob stacking up in the fridge, so I blanched and froze most of it to be used in the winter as needed. The rest I used to make a corn salsa. Another super easy recipe that I pretty much made up myself. I can't tell you how accomplished that makes me feel!

Easy Corn Salsa

• 2 ears of corn, blanched with corn removed from the husk
• 1 - 2 tomatoes diced
• 1 green pepper diced
• 1-2 onions diced
• 2 - 3 jalapenos to taste
• juice of 1 lemon (lime would be better, but I didn't have any!)
• evoo (splash)
• rice wine vinegar (splash)
• garlic salt & pepper to taste

Matt scarfed it down and completely ruined his dinner. Oh well! It must be healthier than the burger he was planning to eat, right?