CSA Farm Share 2011: Week 10

[surrealestate]

And once again, I'm way behind. :( This is last week.

• 4 lbs Tomatoes (yay!)
• 2 pints Cherry Tomatoes (once again I took 1 red, 1 sungold)
• 2 bunches Radishes (beowabbit?)
• 8 Poblano Peppers
• 6 Japanese Eggplant
• 6 Cousa Squash
• 6 Cucumbers
• 2 bunches Beets (+greens)
  =26.2#

Drying has finally begun in earnest! Did some of C's tomatoes and mm.. they're like candy. Right now a batch of cousa chip is finishing and I suspect they will be gone in short order. Must make more. More beet burgers happened too (with yet more to come), baingan bharta, and I also made some nummy Japanese-style cucumbers (of which there also needs to be more).

Yesterday we had a little jaunt to a friend's place to pick peaches, so that's going to have to be a project sometime this week. Oh, and I also did a batch of basil pesto this week of which some was eaten and the rest frozen.

And there has been lots and lots of fresh bruschetta:
1. Chop tomatoes, mince garlic
2. Mix with some salt and let sit a few minutes
3. Pour on a bunch of olive oil
4. Stir in chopped fresh basil
5. Serve on toasted baguette slices
*nomnomnom*

Comments

[mercurysparkle.livejournal.com]

Beet burgers? Sounds awesome - beets are way up there on my favorite food list. Would you be willing to share the recipe?
-R-

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Oh, right, C wanted that recipe, too. It's from Color Me Vegan and this person transcribed the text rather faithfully, but IGNORE THEIR PICTURES. I don't know if they just don't know how to cook or what, but ours did not look like piles of mush -- they were well-formed burgers. (Like every other pic you can find of them online, but most of them aren't accompanied by the full recipe.)

Recipe: http://www.eatingisart.com/2011/03/beet-it.html

Post with pics of what the actually look like: http://sweetandsavoryvegan.com/2011/01/19/the-veggie-burger-that-beats-the-rest/

[mercurysparkle.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The cookbook sounds fabulous too. I'm working on adding more meals without meat to our diet as kosher beef is ludicrously expensive and Empire chicken doesn't excite me.