surrealestate | CSA Farm Share 2009: Week 17 (Reply)

Parker drop-offs started back up last week with a fabulous haul as per usual. Then I had some people over for games and was literally canning until a few minutes before start time. Lack of sleep made me an insufficient host, but luckily my guests managed to make up for it by helping themselves to the drinks I was too fried to remember to offer and also with nummy cookies. Mmm... cookies...

I was out on the Cape these past few days (which is why you may (or may not) have noticed my absence locally this weekend) so there's still a ton of food to deal with. But ah, it was lovely there and I wish I could have stayed for another week. Unfortunately, when I got home all I could do was run upstairs, grab my script, and jump on my bike to get to rehearsal, where dinner consisted of potato chips and candy and I probably would have been better off not having any of it but I was so hungry. Even so, it was a tremendously fun session (best one yet) and I'm really looking forward to the big shoe.

Anyway, onto the veggies of the week:

1 head lettuce
1 bunch dill
1 bunch cilantro
1 bunch mustard greens
1 bunch arugula
2 green peppers
1 bunch big beets
1 bunch big white turnips
1 bunch radishes (normal sized)
1 lb zucchini
1 lb parsnips
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1 bunch dill
1 head lettuce
1 bunch kale
1 kohlrabi almost as big as my head
3 lbs potatoes
2.5 lbs bell peppers
1 green Asian eggplant
4 oz mixed baby greens
10 oz tomatillos
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1/2 peck apples

Yes We Can (we also dry, ferment, etc):
Canned: tomatillo salsa verde, hot pepper & onion relish
Dried: dill, cilantro, maitake mushrooms, apples
Fermented: sauerkraut, kosher dills spears (having been gifted with some pickling cukes)

I also finally de-crocked the ton of pickles I started fermenting a ways back. Unfortunately, there were a large number of hollows which I should have caught beforehand, and I should have just speared all of them, but timing was bad. In any case, what survived the triage is quite good (and the garlic, omgyum!), but there are a lot of them. I guess I could can some but it seems a shame to wreck 'em that way. Who wants pickles?