CSA Farm Share 2009: Week 14

[surrealestate]

Good haul this week, along with some unlisted extras for helping out.

Week 14

• 4 eggplant
• 4 green peppers
• 4 cucumbers
• 6 apples
• 1 yellow watermelon
• 1 bunch arugula
• 1 bunch mustard greens
• 2 lbs tomatoes
• 1 bunch broccoli
• 1 bunch radishes
• 1 bunch turnips
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• 1 lb carrots
• 2 lbs pepper
• 6 ears corn
• 1 head lettuce
• 3 leeks
• 1 head raddichio
• 1 lb tomatoes
• 1 bunch radishes
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• 1.5 lb peaches
• 2 melons (on the outside they looked like one cantaloupe and one honeydew, but inside both look like cantaloupe)

And on the food preservation front:

Canned four pints of dilly beans, four quarts of pears, and one quart of extra light pear syrup.

Froze more roasted tomato sauce, broccoli, blackberries, and arugula pesto.

Dried more tomatoes, wax beans, peaches, grapes, sweet peppers, jalapeños (and jalapeño powder), eggplant (and eggplant powder), and husk cherries.

Comments

[fidgetmonster.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I never thought of drying eggplant. Do you reconstitute it and put it in sauces or marinades? what do you use the eggplant powder for? do you salt it before starting the dehydration process? I admit I suck at cooking eggplant. I grow them very well. grovegoddess made me an eggplant sandwich this weekend with one of my italian eggplants and it was amazing.

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

And on the food preservation front:

How about the wildlife preservation front? Have any canned elk?

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

everyone knows you that you should only pickle elk

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

This is my first time drying it, so I can't say yet, but the idea seems to be that it can be reconstituted and used to great effect in things like moussaka, eggplant, as dolma wraps, and all sorts of things. I dipped in water with lemon juice and salt (per what a book told me), then sprinkled with some extra salt just in case, and pressed them for an hour or so before drying. The skins were a little tough, so I peeled most of them and usd the skins to turn into eggplant powder, which can be used as a spice, but I don't know where.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

My method of animal preservation is entirely different. :p

[jss]

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