Fun with Bok Choy

We are well into our CSA (community supported agriculture initiative if the letters CSA stumped you)and getting our basket on Monday afternoon is one of the highlights of the week. In a way, it's like a surprise present, that you pay for and you have some inkling what might be in there from the previous week's newsletter but still -- actually getting it and seeing what fruits and veggies are there is very fun. This week was the best surprise of all -- no more Bok Choy. Not that I don't like Bok Choy but I swear it's been multiplying in my refrigerator. I give heads of it away and still there's more bok choy. We eat it, and still, there's more bok choy.

The first night I did something with bok choy didn't end up with the best results. One of the few times Mark Bittman has failed me. It was okay if you are a die-hard vegetable eater like MR and I, but Marc and Will took one bite and swore off bok choy for the rest of bok choy season. This is bad news when bok choy season runs for four weeks. Did I mention that Marc said that if he heard the word bok choy again he was going to scream? Apparently bok choy was in season at the Transylvania University dining hall at lunchtime as well as at the Mathews' house at dinner.

Weeks later, I've done a lot of thing with bok choy reminiscent of Bubba from the movie Forest Gump listing off all the the things you can do with shrimp. You can have bok choy saute, steamed bok choy, grilled bok choy, juiced bok choy, bok choy omelette, bok choy quesadilla, bok choy stir-fried with left over chinese food (definitely the best) and bok choy & bratwurst (not good -- even with honey mustard dressing). Yesterday with the last bit of it, I had bok choy sauteed with a teriyaki and sesame orzo salad -- don't be impressed in spite of how cool that sounds, while Mary Rollins had a Bok Choy flatbread sandwich -- also not nearly as good as it sounds if that even sounds good.  I think I've lost all perspective on what and what doesn't go with bok choy.

I feel sure there's more fun I could have with bok choy but it's finally all gone I can proudly say that we wasted not a bit of it.