CSA Farm Share 2011: Week 11
Aug. 30th, 2011 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- 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)
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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. :]
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Date: 2011-08-30 01:57 pm (UTC)I have to get my third floor kitchen cleaned up so we can use it for stuff like this.
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Date: 2011-09-01 03:06 pm (UTC)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!