This morning, I picked up my CSA box from Bee Heaven Farms to find beautiful carrots with the tops on, and a suggestion in the CSA newsletter to use the carrot greens for pesto. Here’s the rest of the box:

Continuing on to the Coral Gables farmers’ market, I watched the fried green tomatoes demonstration:

after passing an abundance of peppers (look for some in a new kthread cooks episode very soon),

and celosia,

a flower with as many directions as I’ll be heading in March,

chioggia beets my favorite vendor convinced me I needed,

and tender rainbow chard that Rainbow Brite might have gathered as Starlite leapt skyward,

scooping up one of these onions on her way,

to accompany a top o’ the carrot pesto (Process 1 clove garlic, then feathery tops of 1 bunch of carrots, 1/3 cup pine nuts, 1/3 cup grated Parmesan, add 3 tbsp olive oil while processing. Season),

to stir into sautéed onion, chopped rainbow chard, and diced carrots stirred in turn into pasta (I used strozzapreti) for a brunch with Solana, Georgia, and Ivan in the Magic Cottage kitchen.

These three, along with my friend David, work in leadership positions on the remarkable Global Voices, a “collaborative newsroom for the developing world,” and the cottage buzzed with their infectious energy.

And so March begins, in like a lioness wearing her green proudly—and in this year’s economy, nothing green will go to waste and every opportunity to cook with bright spirits visiting Miami embraced…

Related posts:

1. pppsst: spsp (summer pesto squash pasta)
2. kthread cooks: tomato pesto
3. kthread cooks: pepita pesto and roasted squash

1. Mica:
   March 1st, 2009 at 12:05 am

   I say something like this in every comment, but your blog really is like a breath of fresh (warm) air in the blustery, freezing midwest winter. That pile of peppers makes me so happy, almost as happy as the massive avocado. Mmmm. I’m sure you will do it justice.

2. Kristen:
   March 1st, 2009 at 8:26 am

   I’m so glad, Mica—and yes, the avocado is also in the new episode. What very good titles your blog posts have, btw :)

3. Georgia:
   March 2nd, 2009 at 10:27 pm

   Lovely words and images, and also a great advertisement for the Flip Mino! I’d completely forgotten you filmed us–did I really consume that much cava?

   Thanks again for your wonderful hospitality and the terrific meal.

4. Kristen:
   March 2nd, 2009 at 10:56 pm

   Georgia, thank you for coming over, what a great afternoon. I’m glad we all had some cava (it’s a requirement at the cottage).

   Someday, I really do want to visit your forest and Solana’s (tall, guarded) tree :)

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