CSA Farm Share 2009: Week 4

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My newly-acquired mad skillz are making short work of the farm share this time around (it's gotten easier to deal with every year, go figure), and even with being away for four days, I had the need to harvest my own garden lettuce for a Tuesday lunch salad. And it was yummy, oh yes. The lettuce, of course, loves this weather.

This weekend, I used farm-fresh bounty for multiple ice cream flavors including a Chunky Strawberry (which was one of the best things I've ever eaten, ever), Strawberry-Balsamic-Black Pepper sorbet (copying the flavor profile of last week's awesome jam, and also awesome), and Sugar Snap Pea, which, while not at the same tongue-exploding level as the others, was still really good and garnered more "Who'd a thunk it?" votes than any other flavor. In other frozen homesteading news, I also used my apfelwein in a sorbet that went over very well.

• 1 bunch Swiss chard
• 1 lb sugar snap peas
• 1 bulb fennel, with voluminous fronds
• 1 bunch orange carrots
• 1/2 bunch yellow carrots
• 1/2 head escarole
• 1/2 bunch beets
• 1/2 bunch turnips
• 1/2 head romaine lettuce
• 1/2 bunch parsley
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• 1/2 head green leaf lettuce
• 1/2 bunch scallions
• 1/2 bunch stripy beets
• 1/2 bunch mixed chard
• 1/2 lb hakurei turnips (no greens)
• 1/4 lb carrots
• 1 small (and pointy) head cabbage
• 3 cucumbers
• Squash mix: 1 zucchini & 1 small summer
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• 1 pint (somewhat iffy) strawberries