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

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Inn't chocolate syrup easy and fun? I like the alchemy of it.

And it was SO GOOD to see you at the swap.

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

The food swap was all kinds of fun. I just met with Connor yesterday for his research about swapping.

Chocolate Cherry Peanut Butter is my goal for the next swap, but I'm still tweaking the recipe.

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm especially in sharing food now, with too much garden produce and not enough mouths for it. I've got some 3-bean salad I'd be happy to drop off, whether or not you have something you have something to give in return for it today. Also, all the cukes evar.

And any chance I could swing an invite to the next such food swap as you've described?

[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.