CSA Haul

CSA 2011, Week 17

This week’s haul is: leeks, garlic, bell peppers, red onions, winter squash, and sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes were an experiment this year, and Ralph said he didn’t expect much out of them, but they ended up with 1500 pounds, so they’ll definitely be doing them again, which is really exciting. In cooking highlights, I

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CSA Haul

CSA 2011, Week 16

This week’s haul was: carrots, tomatoes, salad mix, garlic, kale, peppers, and potatoes. In what is close to the last installment of all tomatoes, all the time cooking, I made a fabulous uncooked tomato sauce with basil (from the garden) and fresh mozzarella over pasta. It was so pretty with the combination of colors from

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CSA Haul

CSA 2011, Week 15

This week’s haul was: lettuce, cucumbers, garlic, a melon, tomatoes, and peppers. The cooking highlight of last week was the Roasted Eggplant with Green Goddess Sauce from Melissa Clark’s In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite, which I already ohhed and aahed about at length in the book review early this week.

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CSA 2011, Week 14

This week’s haul was: sweet peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, cauliflower, garlic, and potatoes. We also headed to the Farmer’s Market this morning to round out the ingredients for gazpacho, which which we’re bringing to a friend’s house tonight. Here’s the pile of goodies that went into that: It’s funny, last year, we made gazpacho once, and

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