Farm share, weeks 5 & 6, and mushroom share, weeks 7 & 8

[magid]

Last week, I was out of town, and the friends who picked up let me know what arrived:

• 2 large and full heads of lettuce
  
• even larger head (bunch?) of kale
  
• 3 gorgeous mid-size onions with scallion stems that just kept going
  
• 2 fennels
  
• the potted basil is in our front window
  
• the cutest 5 mini cucumbers.
  
• 2 skinny zucchini
  
• 4 friendly squashes, zucchini size
  
• biiig carrots
  
• 2 very dense purple cabbages
  
• golden oyster mushrooms

In this week's box:

• two purple peppers and two green peppers
  
• two jalapeno peppers
  
• two heads of red leaf lettuce
  
• a bunch of green chard
  
• seven carrots
  
• three fresh onions
  
• two medium Italian (violet) eggplants
  
• four zucchini, one golden zucchini, and a summer squash
  
• a bunch of cilantro (given away at the pickup)
  
• five pickling cucumbers
  
• portobello mushrooms (probably my least favorite 'fancy' mushroom, because they's so overused, but mushrooms are definitely better than no mushrooms!)

First thoughts: cook the chard with onion, lemon, and pine nuts. Lots of green salad with the lettuce and cucumber. Perhaps a roasted ratatouille with the squashes, peppers, onions, and eggplant. Perhaps pickle the carrots and hot peppers.