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.
I did the pick up this week, so the above is the entire haul for the week before I took out my mother’s half. The varieties from top left to right (and left to right again) are: Wolf River, Red Baron, Milden, Sweet Sixteen, Red Blaze, and Chestnut.
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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
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.
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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.