So this year, our CSA is growing rhubarb. I’ve done strawberry rhubarb crisp, and a killer rhubarb coffee cake, so where do you go next? Jam! The above is a Vanilla Balsamic Rhubarb Jam, and for once, it actually made more than the recipe said, so I had a small jar’s worth to sample, and […]
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So what do you do when the CSA gives you a pound of green tomatoes? Pickle them! You’ll notice a bit of orange – a couple had started to turn a bit toward ripeness by the time I got to them, but were definitely still of green tomato consistency, so I just cut them up
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This week’s haul was: salad turnips (and greens!), eggplant, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, garlic, and bell peppers. The broccoli was gone that night.
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
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.
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