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Last weekend, Schmarbo and I ran in the Pittsburgh Ruckus Race, which is a 4 mile race. What makes this different than--say--your average 5K is that it's really more of a 4 mile obstacle course. So as you're running along, you've got to navigate things like 8 foot deep trenches that you have to climb out of and cargo nets and mud pits . . . that kind of thing (if my description's not painting a clear picture in your mind's-eye, the Post-Gazette has a pretty good slide-show of the event--neither of us are in any of the pictures, but it does a good job setting the tone of what we had to deal with).

Sweet Kati tried her best to document the event. The best 2 pictures that came out of it, though, are a simple set of before and afters!:

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I got this article sent to me last week and at first it made me jump - 'blogger being retired!?'.


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Sorry for falling behind on my CSA updates. . .this quick post will catch you up on then we're back on track!

Ok - for the past two weeks we've been getting
- cucumbers
- strawberries
- kholrabi
- garlic
- sugar snap peas
- zucchinis
and of course . . .

lettuce!

I'm beginning to think that by the end of the summer I'll be totally over salad!!
We are however loving the zucchini. Boy, it's a LOT of zucchini, but I've made zucchini bread which was super yummy.

We grilled the sugar snap peas in foil packets with a little salt and butter. It was SUPER yummy! And the surprise of the recent two weeks was the grilled radishes. We sliced them relatively thinly, added some small bits of butter, finely chopped garlic (from our fresh garlic!) and a cube of ice. Seal the foil packet and grill for about 8 minutes. It was tender and almost took on the consistency of potatoes.

We haven't used the kholrabi yet but I plan to very soon.

Just picked up the next batch today and will be much better next week, I promise!!!

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OK! We've just picked up week 7 so here's a recap of week 6.
What we got:
- red lettuce
- yellow squash
- blueberries
- tomatoes
- garlic
- cabbage

How we used it:
red lettuce - I haven't yet but I've committed to making salads for a couple functions this weekend so I'm sure I will.
yellow squash - so far I haven't yet.
blueberries - added to granola/yogurt. Oh and Libby cannot get enough blueberries, so she ate most of them
- garlic - I use garlic all the time! This is our third garlic bulb so I don't think we've used THIS particular one yet but the other ones are being pressed into service in normal cooking. Though, since we've gotten kind of backed up on garlic I may make a roasted garlic spread soon!
tomatoes - one in a salad, one as toppings for burgers
- cabbage - so far I haven't used it but I have a yummy recipe for a ground chicken in red chili with cucumber/shallot/lime dressing wrapped in cabbage leaves. I keep wanting to make it but we've been grilling so much I haven't. But now that I have the cabbage I just MIGHT!

From lsat week:
we FINALLY made the kholrabi. It kind of looks like kholrabi fries.
REVIEW: It was DELICIOUS!!! We made burgers a couple nights ago and kind of wanted fries or something for the side, but only had the kholrabi. I mean really - it's covered in cheese that gets crunchy in the hot oven so how bad can it be, right?

I also used some cucumbers in a salad, though that's not very exciting.

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