Farm share, week 6

[magid]

• two bunches of green curly kale
  
• four regular cucumbers
  
• (lots of little) golden beets, perhaps two pounds
  
• two bunches of purple 'Torpedo' onions
  
• perhaps a pound and a half of carrots (young ones, likely thinned from the later crop)
  
• three hothouse tomatoes
  
• two big bunches of basil (one given to the workers at the Clover location I pick up at, because I wasn't going to get through it all (yes, I understand the existence of pesto...))
  
• three young fennel with fronds (last week was frondless)
  
• two quarts of blueberries (Kosinski Farm)

Likely things: freeze the blueberries for later. Kale salad with unsweetened dried cranberries (found at Trader Joe's!) and probably chopped Brazil nuts (I'm out of sunflower seeds and won't have time to get more before salad making). Possibly a golden beets and carrot relish? Possibly roasted fennel, tomato, and onion (would be great if I had organic lemons, but currently don't, though this could be remedied), or a tomato-basil salad? Not sure what I'll do with the cucumbers; I was hoping for pickling cucumbers. They might end up in one of the fridge-pickle jars I've got going in the fridge (four quarts, currently).

Comments

[cellio]

FWIW, my basil has been abundant this season and I've been gently drying some of it. Oven on its lowest setting for an hour or so seems to do the trick.

[magid]

That's a great thought, thank you!