Winter farm share, first pickup

[magid]

I signed up for a winter farm share from Winter Moon Roots, with pickups every other Monday at the Harvard Square Clover for the next few months. The focus is on root vegetables, and I don't feel like digging out my scale, but at a guess the bag is in the range of ten pounds of roots, a pound of dried beans (the options were Jacob's cattle beans or yellow-eyed peas; I chose the former, feeling a bit Biblical), and a package of organic corn tortillas from Mi Tierra, which unfortunately doesn't have a hechsher (and they smell wonderfully of corn).

The roots in this week's bag include carrots (mostly orange, some other colors), golden potatoes, forona beets (red, but more cylindrical than spherical, so good for slicing), golden beets, starburst purple daikon radish.

Comments

[avivasedai]

That sounds like a great farm share to me! Of course, I'd have to figure out what to do with the potato so that I wouldn't eat it but my family would (damn nightshade allergy), but the beets and carrots and such: yum!

Oh wait, carb counting with beets... damn this is complicated... Anyway, enjoy!

Also, I will have to look up Jacob's cattle beans.

[magid]

Thank you!

I baked colorful bits of veggies this morning (golden beet, orange carrot, purple starburst daikon radish), putting them in the oven before taking my bike out to check a section of the eruv. They were done when I got home, ravenous, and seemed especially tasty.

There's a nice photo plus a recipe here.

Ah, I see!

[avivasedai]

If you made that recipe, what did you use in place of the traif?

Re: Ah, I see!

[magid]

Oh, I didn't make that recipe (I still haven't used the beans at all, actually). It was just a nice picture, and a recipe doesn't hurt :-). I think I'd either use some kind of beef/lamb bacon (extra spendy, because I don't know anywhere to get that other than Grow & Behold), or pastrami, or put in vegan sausage later in the cooking, or skip it entirely.

[cellio]

I'd never heard of starburst purple daikon radish -- sounds like fun!

According to the preview I'm getting (non-starburst, non-purple -- or, at least, there were no adjectives) daikon radish on Tuesday. Yum!

It looks like the one I just joined sometimes has a "this OR that" slot, but we don't get to pick. This week I will get either acorn or butternut squash (both of which are fine, but last time I was happy to get the Chinese cabbage instead of the arugela).

[magid]

I hear you on the this-or-that; it's challenging when it's a boxed share, easier when you're picking out individual items (but that takes more time, and more space, as well as staffing, so a lot of places don't like that as much).

I've never gotten a daikon before that was anything but white (for the radish; the greens are green :-) ). There was just the one partly-purple one, and that was exciting in and of itself.

I rather like arugula myself; sometimes people are willing to trade if you check through it at the pickup....