CSA Farm Share 2011: Week 9

And the nightshades are ramping up! The tomatoes are amazingly good. Looking forward to more next week, too.

• 2 bunches Beets (+greens)
• 2 pound Sweet Onions (loose)
• 4 pounds Squash (mix of summer and zucchini)
• 6 Cucumbers
• 6 long Italian Eggplant
• 6 Green Peppers (dunno if we'll ever get ripe ones :P )
• 2 bunches Red Russian Kale
• 2 pints Cherry Tomatoes (I took one red and sungold)
  =25.2#

Last week there was once again awesome coconut curry into which the Asian eggplant just melted. This week I made a sort of eggplant parm casserole that disappeared pretty quickly. I'm thinking I may do some eggplant tomato sauce, which I wouldn't have thought was my thing, but I really enjoyed the one at DFP. Most of the celery from last week was chopped and frozen for cool-weather soups (it's not really a raw munching type of celery) and the rest into mashed chickpea salad. Nomnom. Most of the kale was raw-marinated and is now gone. Should probably do that with the rest. And I made a double batch if crazy yummy beet burgers. Still have more beets, should make more of those.

Kind of unbelievable that I'm managing to do any foodstuff at all (and I'm not doing as much as I want to be), but it's really only because lately Mark is here most of the time helping to entertain the little guy thus allowing me to do things like shower, cook, and maintain some semblance of sanity. I've let go of the idea of anyone else helping which makes it easier to deal with the reality of it and just appreciate the folks who at least take the time to be social with us and bring over hand-me-downs, which we dig. Speaking of the awesome little guy (seriously, how did we luck into such a beautiful baby??), he seems to be more and more interested in the things we eat. I'm not especially looking forward to having to put actual thought into what to feed him (not to mention the changes in output), but it's coming soon. (One of the bonuses of EBFing is not having to think about what or how much or anything like that.) Probably about time to start reading about BLW and search out one or more of those mesh baggie things.

Latest meltingly cute thing he's doing is reaching his arms out to me when he's done with other people holding him.

PS: Since our garden didn't happen this year (last week I finally got two of homemade earthboxes prepped and seeded some leafy greens), your extra tomatoes are always appreciated. :D