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 […]

For something a little different this year, my mother and I are splitting a share from the Out on Limb apple CSA, from Super Chilly Farm in Palermo. There will be five drops through November, with a variety of rare cooking and dessert apples. This week had six varieties: Wealthy, Charette, Whitney, September Ruby, St.

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.

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

This ended up being a weird week, CSA-wise. They had to cancel the Portland pick up, between some forecasted severe thunderstorms with hail (I can agree that hanging out in metal framed tents in those conditions isn’t my cup of tea), and the impending arrival of Hurricane Irene requiring them to move up the planned

Today’s haul was: kale, summer squash, cucumbers, garlic, tomatoes, jalapenos, fennel and broccoli. As a consequence, it was BLT night. And the BLTs were really, really good.