CSA Farm Share 2011: Week 11

[surrealestate]

Once again, a week behind (I started this a week ago).

• 2 bunches Tatsoi
• 2 bunches Mustard
• 2 bunches Broccoli
• 2 pints Cherry Tomatoes
• 4 pounds Tomatoes
• 6 Peppers (still not ripe)
• 4 Zucchini
• 2 Eggplant (absurdly huge)
  =24#

Once against, preservation was mostly on the freezer and dryer front. (As temps cool, I expect canning to become more likely, though I'm still planning to once again do a frozen tomato sauce because it was so much better than anything I've ever had out of a canned jar.) More beet burgers were frozen, the first tray of pesto packed away and another tray made (with almonds this time). More dried tomatoes and also lots of squash chips (summer, zucchini, and cousa). I'm glad to find a healthy method of preparing summer squash that makes me want to eat it. I've already made two dehydrator's worth and they're all gone. Plenty more squash to dry, though. Also processed the peaches from a friend's tree enough to be able to pack and freeze them for later use. And the rest of the tomatoes turned into bruschetta.

Last night we used previously-frozen celery, farmshare carrots & onions, tatsoi, and assorted previously-dried herbs to make red lentil soup. Is it soup season already??

[ETA: I should note that much of the above would not have been possible without help. Most notably, Mark, but this week also Cee (without whom I wouldn't have had most of the tomatoes, and much of the end result went back to her, of course) as well as Carl, without whom most of the peaches would probably would have rotted before I got to them. And D pretty much made the soup while I nursed, but I figure the work I put into the ingredients ahead of time (which also included freezing cubes of tomato paste, though not homemade) warranted it. :]

Comments

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I posted in comment here. I should see if the pic I took of a beet burger & zuch chips came out!

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

I am very impressed.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Oops, and you also get some credit for providing the blade that made the zucchini chips possible! Would you like to try some, btw? Everything so far got et, but there will be more soon.

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

I'd love a taste!

I have to get my third floor kitchen cleaned up so we can use it for stuff like this.

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

We had soup last night too. Must have been the weather :)

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

We have scads more Juliets, and I have lots of unplanned time through Thursday. Want to get together for making the famous roasted sauce? And thanks for the beet burgers and the recipe. :)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what your preferred contact method is, but I just left you voicemail.

And now that I'm looking at this comment again, I realize I totally misread it before and thought it was "on Thursday", not "through Thursday". Oops.. I plead broken brain.

In any case, yes!