CSA Farm Share 2012: Week 11

[surrealestate]

• 12 ears Corn
• 10 Hungarian Hot Peppers
• 4 Eggplants
• 2 lbs Zucchini
• 2 lbs Potatoes
• 4 lbs Peaches
• 6 lbs Tomatoes
• 10 St Nick Peppers
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I made another big batch of roasted eggplant & tomato sauce (which, btw, was AMAZING on pizza). Last week I also did some canning: summer squash relish and ginger bourbon peaches. The syrup from the peaches has been making amazing sodas since then. Nomnomnom. The blueberry shrub I made (using the whole berry, no straining, yay!) is also f'in yum.

In other food news, I also made chocolate syrup (as well as cookie-pi) for Pi-Con. As you may know, making chocolate syrup is absurdly simple and the result is so good. Give it a try.

And since I've been so slackful about posting and haven't mentioned the food swap, I'll mention it here. I went to a fabulous food swap! I traded away assorted homemade goodies of mine for those made by others.

More or less left-to-right, I got sourdough starter, sourdough bread, red currant shrub, fennel & onion jam, sweet pickles cherries, tamarind balls, ginger tamarind balls, "creamsicle" (aka orange-vanilla) syrup, bagels, and blueberry hot sauce. Everything I brought was over-subscribed, which was also a nice feeling. I can't wait to do this again. Meanwhile, if anyone who does their own food things (doesn't have to be canned -- fresh, frozen, whatever is fine, too) wants to do any private swaps, let me know.

Comments

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

The great thing about making your own chocolate syrup is that you can make sure it's not too sweet, like most commercial chocolate syrup is. I made some syrup with a bit of cinnamon and vanilla in it, too, and used it for chocolate phosphates. So tasty. I should make up another batch. Hom nom phosphates.

The eggplants, along with some of the tomatoes and Hungarian hot peppers, became baingan bharta last night. Quite tasty.

How's the shrub? I've been exploring them a bit, though my thai shrub experiment was rather a failure. Not enough flavor.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

The shrub I made is fantastic, imho. :) I like the red currant one I got a the swap, too.

I was considering baingan bharta and baba, but ended up just going with lots of sauce. Too much to do to deal with multiple dishes, and I'm sure there will be more eggplant.

I don't think I'd ever heard of a chocolate phosphate. Where do you get the phosphate?

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

What went into the blueberry shrub? Besides blueberries, of course.

I'm thinking eggplant parmesan for the next batch of eggplant. Though with 4 eggplants that'd be a whole lot of eggplant parmesan.

The Boston Shaker has acid phosphate, which is what makes it a phosphate.