Farm share, week 10

[magid]

Lots of stuff :-)

• six ears of corn
  
• a bunch of chard (I chose red)
  
• a pound and a half of carrots
  
• a head of celery (narrower stalks than commercial)
  
• three peppers (I nabbed two red ones and a purple one)
  
• three pounds of tomatoes (I got a bunch of different kinds and colors)
  
• a head of garlic
  
• two leeks
  
• an eggplant (there were long Asian kinds, but a cute little regular one caught my eye first)
  
• two pounds of pickling cucumbers/zucchini/summer squash (there were golden zukes as well as green, and the summer squash were different shapes, also the two-toned kind; I got a bunch of little zukes and squash of different colors, but all the regular shape)

So far, I put some tomatoes in with an Israeli-style couscous mix (with baby chickpeas, orzo, and red quinoa), along with some feta, black pepper, and black olive spread (I'd intended to put in some of the corn, but forgot). I sauteed the leeks with a carrot, a red pepper, four cloves of garlic, and the chard. I think there will have to be a tray of roasted ratatouille, and more corn and tomato salads. Possibly soup stock with the celery, though that will require getting onions, since I'm completely out (horrors!).

Porch update: When I got home from the Institute, I harvested 3 sungolds and 11 grape tomatoes. Monday night, I picked some chives, two marigold flowers, 4 sungolds, and 6 grape tomatoes, for a season total of 24 sungolds and 50 grape tomatoes.

And this morning I saw the turkey by Kendall Square again. I hadn't seen it for weeks, and had wondered whether it found greener pastures. But it was there, and I got to hear it gobble a couple of times (a first). Yay. I also noticed where on the side of the bird the teacher got her wild turkey feathers, the brown and white striped ones.

Comments

[jaq.livejournal.com]

Aww, I only got green peppers, but I did get eight ears of corn. I tried to choose some different colors of tomatoes too, having watched Jamie's show (http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/J/jamie-at-home/episodes.html) about them last week.

[magid.livejournal.com]

The peppers were mostly green, some purple, and just the two red as far as I could see, but I got there on the late side. I've still got corn from last week (my bad; it's lovely). And I definitely tried for different colors, but it was mostly in the red to that weird red-green-purple color I don't have a name for, because the remaining yellow tomatoes were HUGE (one weighed in at 2 pounds!).