Farm share, week 17

[magid]

• four pounds sweet potatoes
  
• one and a half pounds of carrots
  
• one and a half pounds of onions (a mix of little yellow and red ones)
  
• four heads of cauliflower or broccoli (the friend who picked up for me chose all cauliflower, which makes me super happy - this might be the first time I've gotten cauliflower in my share)
  
• six green bell peppers
  
• a bunch of scallions
  
• two bunches of kale or chard (my friend picked up one of each)
  
• one and a half pounds of salad mix
  
• take what you want hot peppers (jalapenos, cayennes, and paprikas)(my friend picked up a small bag of a mix of these)

First thoughts: I'm lucky to have a (nonJewish) friend who was willing to pick up my farm share for me, given Yom Kippur. Obviously there will be many sweet potato things in my future, not sure whether just baked whole/roasted diced, or some other things (maybe in a black bean soup with cumin?); chard will be sauted with some allium or other; it's feeling a bit chilly for green salad, but maybe some fancy sandwich with lots of greens? Not sure about the rest, but they're workhorse veggies, so they'll be used.

Comments

[ruthling]

i bought a single sweet potato at the farmers market today. that seems like rather a lot of them.

[magid]

How big was the sweet potato you bought?!

None of these are large, so I can dice them and have a reasonable, rather than overwhelming, amount. (It's still less than a 5-lb bag of potatoes, after all!) My challenge is that, though I do like sweet potatoes, I've been finding them super sweet recently (ie dessert-y, rather than vegetable-y).

Sweet potatoes:

[avivasedai]

I'll add one small/medium sweet potato to a butternut squash soup or carrot soup with a chicken broth base - the sweetness doesn't overwhelm, and when I blend it all up, it helps with the consistency. I also made a tasty tsimmes this year with just carrots and sweet potato (or I think I used yam), margarine, cinnamon, and in the last 10-15 minutes of baking, a dash of maple syrup to pull it all up a notch.

Re: Sweet potatoes:

[magid]

Nice blend of orange roots!

I grew up with fleishig tsimmes, which I made a nice approximation of a few weeks ago using carrots, sweet potatoes, some onions, flanken ends, plus some freshly squeezed OJ, prunes, honey, and diced lemon to balance out the sweetness some. It came out pretty well.