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CSA share blogging #2
2 July 2020 09:16 amAnother week, another share of a local farmer's crop.
As far as last week's bag, the zucchini was cut into spears and stir-fried with chicken, sliced onions, and rosemary; the probable eating cucumber was saladed in some vinegar and parsley (we were out of dill); the probable pickling cuke is resting in pieces in a jar of leftover pickle juice (just to see if that works); the oranges are long since gone down Eaglet's maw; and the creamy mesquite honey is in the cupboard, pending more spreading uses (it's too thick to easily measure into recipes). The tomatillos, nothing happened with -- we hadn't even gotten to giving them to our neighbor.
This week, we got:
another basket of tomatillos
two ears of sweet corn
six disc-shaped peaches
a watermelon
a bunch of small carrots
a few things they claim are leeks but that look more oniony
Both baskets of tomatillos are now with the neighbor, in exchange for some dill. The corn was immediately boiled for dinner, and the peaches -- white-fleshed, juicy, and sweet -- were dessert. The watermelon is chilling for tonight's dessert. The leek-onions will get used in the next dish they seem like they'll fit, ditto carrots.
In none-CSA veggies, Tuesday we harvested all of our garden-plot corn that seemed ready. Not a single ear was completely filled, and most had less than a quarter of their kernels grown. They were still tasty, especially the Hopi pink. (Which, yes, is usually a grinding not boiling-on-the-cob variety, but it still worked for us.) We'll pull up the stalks soon and plant something TDB. We are still waiting for the first cantaloupe and more cherry tomatoes to ripen. The string beans remain unhappy and unproductive.
---L.
As far as last week's bag, the zucchini was cut into spears and stir-fried with chicken, sliced onions, and rosemary; the probable eating cucumber was saladed in some vinegar and parsley (we were out of dill); the probable pickling cuke is resting in pieces in a jar of leftover pickle juice (just to see if that works); the oranges are long since gone down Eaglet's maw; and the creamy mesquite honey is in the cupboard, pending more spreading uses (it's too thick to easily measure into recipes). The tomatillos, nothing happened with -- we hadn't even gotten to giving them to our neighbor.
This week, we got:
another basket of tomatillos
two ears of sweet corn
six disc-shaped peaches
a watermelon
a bunch of small carrots
a few things they claim are leeks but that look more oniony
Both baskets of tomatillos are now with the neighbor, in exchange for some dill. The corn was immediately boiled for dinner, and the peaches -- white-fleshed, juicy, and sweet -- were dessert. The watermelon is chilling for tonight's dessert. The leek-onions will get used in the next dish they seem like they'll fit, ditto carrots.
In none-CSA veggies, Tuesday we harvested all of our garden-plot corn that seemed ready. Not a single ear was completely filled, and most had less than a quarter of their kernels grown. They were still tasty, especially the Hopi pink. (Which, yes, is usually a grinding not boiling-on-the-cob variety, but it still worked for us.) We'll pull up the stalks soon and plant something TDB. We are still waiting for the first cantaloupe and more cherry tomatoes to ripen. The string beans remain unhappy and unproductive.
---L.