This year’s final haul was: kale, salad mix, a pumpkin, sweet potatoes, peppers, and the most adorable baby chiogga beets. It’s been a good year for the CSA. I really liked the extra level of choice we were given – I’ve stocked up where I was able (winter squash and garlic), and the canning was […]
This week’s haul was: dinosaur kale, sweet potatoes, potato, butternut squash, delicata squash, and celery. This was meant to be the last week, but the Portland pick up got messed up last week, so we get another pick up next week (which is technically the Winter CSA) as a make up. I harvested the last
My mother did the pick up this week, so the above is my selection only. I got: Grimes Golden, Pomme Grise, Gray Pearmain, Nod Head, Tolman Sweet, Benton Read, and Blue Permain. My mother was most excited about the Blue Permain – she has a Blue Permain tree, but it’s too young to bear. It’s
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This weekend’s canning adventure was Apple Rhubarb Chutney from the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving. I used Twenty Oz and Wagener apples from the CSA. It smelled absolutely divine while cooking. I think chutney is a bit of a misnomer – there’s no truly savory component. I’m thinking it’ll go well with oatmeal, so
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This week’s haul (in all its rain-soaked glory) was: pumpkin, winter squash, carrots, sweet potato, garlic, peppers, and eggplant. Cooking highlights for this week included: Pasta Pan-Fried with Butternut Squash, Fried Sage, and Pine Nuts (which included sage from my window garden, as I’ve now moved my keeping herbs in for the season), and an
This week’s varieties were: Spencer, Fameuse, Twenty Ounce (there’s a pen in that picture for size contrast), Jonathan, and Wagener. I picked them up again, so the above is the full share.
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This week’s haul was: green beans, pumpkin, sweet potato, carrots, melon, garlic, Italian skillet pepper, and an eggplant. Cooking highlights from last week were: two from my favorite Melissa Clark cookbook – the Raw Tuscan Kale Salad with Chiles and Pecorino, which I turned into a pasta dish, on the advice of a couple blog
So, what do you do when the CSA gives you three pounds of red onions? Make red onion marmalade! The recipe is from Canning for a New Generation (I’m beginning to think I need to give that book credit as a book read, with the amount of time I’ve spent consulting it this year). I
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The second I saw Romano beans in this week’s CSA offerings, I knew I had to pick some up and make more of the Indian-spiced pickles I made earlier this summer. BF is not a huge pickle fan, but he liked these, because they have the Indian spices, and so don’t taste as much like
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This week’s haul was: peppers, potatoes, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, Romano beans, broccoli, and dinosaur kale. The cooking highlight of last week was this: Orecchiette with Sage, Roasted Garlic, Cauliflower, and Prosciutto. It takes a bit of time, but was super easy to make, and so very good.