farm share, week 6

[magid]

• three pounds of regular cucumbers (which is a lot of cucumbers, as it turns out, and these are the regular ones I don't love, so (a) suggestions for unusual salads or (b) locals who'd be willing to pick up some cucumbers are welcome)
  
• four very small summer squash (I chose green and gold zucchini, plus 7 extras because I was at the tail end of the pickup)
  
• a bunch of Ailsa Craig onions with some green stem (plus an extra from the 'free' box)
  
• two bunches of dill or cilantro (obviously, I chose dill, and the coordinator gave me another two bunches)
  
• a head of lettuce (I chose red leaf)
  
• six ounces of basil
  
• one bunch of red beets with greens
  
• two heads of garlic on the stalk
  
• two stalks of broccoli
  
• one bunch of purple kale
  
• six ounces = two king oyster mushrooms

This week's newsletter from the farm featured the fennel we'd be getting. Notice what's not on the list above? Yup, fennel. It happened last year, too, so I've sent an email to the farm asking that they either (a) get us some fennel, or (b) not strongly feature things that they're not going to send to every distribution site. I'd been planning to make lemony fennel relish. Which is not to say that the rest of this week's share is awful or anything (though I could've done with a lot less cucumber, unless they were pickling cukes).

Anyway (oops, the rest got cut off somehow), I'm not feeling super inspired for particular recipes, just 'saute veg + eggs' or some salad variants. ::sigh::

Comments

[omly]

I would trade you a cucumber for as much lemon balm as you might wish for. (No seriously, it is taking over the earth. You could just have it if you wanted.)

[magid]

I ended up using all the cucumbers in a massive green salad for Shabbat dinner (plus the tops of the onions, a bunch of dill, and 2 heads of lettuce); my hosts had a 9-person meal.

I would happily bring you some blueberry jam, if that's of interest, however. I'm not completely sure what I'd do with lots of lemon balm (other than put in lemonade), but I bet I could figure something out...