CSA Farm Share 2011: Week 7

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Uninspired (albeit delicious) haul this week.

• 2 bunches Chioggia Beets (+greens)
• 2 bunches Yellow Carrots
• 4 Cousa Squash
• 6 Cucumbers
• 2 bunches Red Spring Onions (+tops)
• 2 heads Cabbage
• 4 lbs Red Potatoes
• 2 bunches Asian Turnips (+greens)
  =31.4#

Tuesday night I once again made my awesome go-to salad of beets, carrots, and kohlrabiturnip. Discovering this delicious use of beets is really helping me both stay on top of the share and eat that much more raw veggies. Also did a big stir fry with black bean sauce with all sorts of stuff in it. Then Wednesday I made another one because it was so damn good and we hadn't had much left over.

The last batch of sauerkraut (two quarts) is almost half gone, so I'm going to use all or some of this week's cabbage to make more. Or maybe some kraut and some kimchi, now that I think about it. And I need to find the big jar to get some cukes fermenting. These are huge specimen, not little pickling cukes, but doing 'em sliced is just fine, too. Also considering a batch of bread&butter [vinegar] pickles.

I still have a lot of potatoes and need to decide what to do with them. I'm consider some raw potato chips, though even an entire dehydrator full of those doesn't use up all that many potatoes, really. Maybe baked fries? Though that would mean using the oven, which I've been avoiding. Mashing doesn't seem interesting enough, but maybe I should give it a go before knocking it.