This is approximately twenty pounds of tomatoes (one from the CSA, one from the Farmer’s Market): The following survived the initial wash and cutting off of bad spots: The following did not: After much mashing and boiling: I managed to cover my counter with enough bowls and other equipment to run the results through a […]
This week’s haul was: fingerling potatoes, cherry tomatoes, red peppers, beets, eggplant, garlic, green beans, arugula, and ten pounds of tomatoes seconds. Yep, there are grand plans for tomatoes in this house this weekend…
This week’s haul was: arugula, fennel, kohlrabi, a bell pepper, cherry tomatoes, baby pattypan squash, garlic, and potatoes. You may notice that week 11 is missing – that went to my mother, because we were gone for a good chunk of last week, and I didn’t want anything going to waste in our fridge while
So, what’s a girl to do with about four pound of tomatoes when her salad needs are being fulfilled by the cherry tomato plant in the garden? Salsa! This is the Fresh Vegetable Salsa from the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving. It was meant to make five pints, but I got the above four,
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This week’s haul was: garlic, pattypan squash, a pepper, tomatoes, eggplant, and potatoes. I also was able to buy some wild blueberries (I am a blueberry snob, it’s the low-bush, or nothing else).
Man, I don’t know what it is about this summer, but I have sucked about getting pictures out for anything. It’s not like I’m not doing anything, but it’s just not the kind of stuff that really lends itself to picture taking, and if I’m not downloading anything, I tend to forget my CSA pictures,
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This week’s haul was: dinosaur kale, scallions, tomatoes, green beans, pattypan squash, a pepper, green garlic, and potatoes.
Yeah, I’ve been bad about recording the CSA this year. Last week (another bad picture week)’s haul was: basil, new potatoes, baby carrots (real ones!), lettuce, frisee, zucchini, peas and scallions. This week’s haul (above) was: peas, lettuce, new potatoes, tomatoes (yay!), zucchini and yellow zucchini, carrots, and scallions. I also had my first harvest
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My first canning of the summer season isn’t really seasonal, but had a definite purpose. In my quest for new and interesting sandwich ideas for dinner over the winter, I hit upon fig preserves as an idea for a sandwich spread. Do you know how expensive fig preserves are? And how much the BF ended
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We’ve had company this past week, hence the rapid fire catch up of posts that will shortly commence. And hence the lack of picture on this post, as when I finally downloaded all my pictures for the week, it turns out the CSA pictures I’d hurried to take because I had about five minutes between