Cooking Notes
A little birthday present to myself. Which I have had no time to test out yet, of course.
Canning Notes
My mother had a bumper crop of raspberries earlier this summer. She had so many I told her I’d take as many as she could freeze for me. I knew I wouldn’t be able to do anything with them then, but figured September would probably be better. And I managed jam. The smell was heavenly.
Garden Notes
Here’s today’s project. The food forest attached to the community garden has two beautiful elder shrubs. I was out at around 8:00 this morning to beat the heat and humidity. I pulled off 18 heads, and you wouldn’t even know I was there. Making a sugar syrup was not my idea of the
CSA
Playing a little catch up here – three weeks ago was Romaine lettuce, baby bok choy, fava greens, and micro greens. The next week was the final meat shipment, which was veal stew meat, chicken quarters and pork chops. This Tuesday was the final greens delivery, which was Savoy cabbage, Swiss chard, leeks and pea
CSA
This week’s haul was baby kale, arugula, radicchio and micro greens. Last week, for the monthly meat share, I got ground beef, chicken breast, country spare ribs and a chuck steak.
CSA
This week’s haul (with terrible picture quality because it’s now quite a bit darker after work) was purple cauliflower, kale, herb salad mix, baby arugula and some sort of Asian brassica whose names completely escapes me (and I can’t find my notes).
CSA Notes
This week’s haul was spigariello (apparently, it’s leafy broccoli), cilantro microgreens, harukei turnips, and chicory.
Garden Notes
Harvesting continues. It’s pretty much every other day now, so I’m not posting it real time. The above are from 9/7, 9/8, 9/9, 9/10, 9/12, 9/14 and 9/17. The acorn squash on the 12th was a “No, seriously I have so many I couldn’t possible figure out what to do with them
