Box #5 and Carrot Cake

I have been slacking about posting our CSA boxes lately... we got this one a week and a half ago already!

In this box:
Arugula
Carrots
Cucumbers
Edamame
Eggplant
Garlic
Jalapenos
Purple Beans
Sweet Peppers
Red Cabbage
Red Onion
Sweet Corn
Tomatillos
Tomatoes

I was so excited to finally start getting tomatoes! Right after getting this box, we headed up to my parents' cabin and brought most of our veggies with us. We had the sweet corn with dinner one night, which was quite good. I'm not a huge corn on the cob fan, but oh well.

As I have mentioned before, carrots are not my favorite vegetable. I always struggle with thinking of how to use them up and haven't really come up with anything good, except carrot cake! My mom wanted to try a carrot cake with pineapple and coconut, so I found this recipe, which my mom mostly made while I watched :) I made some cream cheese frosting flavored with a bit of the pineapple juice - it was quite good! I even had to go old school and make the frosting without a mixer. It still seemed to work just fine :)

I loved these tiny little butters