Farm share, week 11

[magid]

• three pounds of carrots
  
• eight ears of corn
  
• twenty-four tomatoes
  
• eight sweet peppers (I chose long Italia ones instead of bell, a mix of yellow and red)
  
• a pound of lunchbox peppers (I chose all yellow and orange, because the red ones were so teeny that I didn't want to deal)
  
• a pound and a half of mixed salad greens
  
• a pound and a half of basil
  
• four heads of garlic
  
• choose-what-you-want herbs in any quantity (I chose sage and some purple shiso)
  
• choose-what-you-want hot peppers in any quantity (I chose a mix of what was available, including Hungarian Hot Wax (which sounds like a spa treatment, not a vegetable!), jalapeno, and what might be cayenne)

First thoughts: tomato-corn salad. Green salad with tomato and pepper. Puree the basil with olive oil to deal with later. Cut all the corn off the cob, freeze some kernels, make corn stock with the bones. Maybe a sushi salad with cucumber (from last week) and shiso, plus avocado, ume pickles, tofu, ginger, soy sauce, sesame seeds, etc. Some kind of pepper relish for canning. Crushed tomatoes for canning. Shahee polo with carrots and garlic. Halwa using carrots.

I didn't swap anything because mostly, people were putting in leaves, which I'm also finding hard to keep up with, but I signed up for two meal train deliveries in the next week, so I hope they like salads!

Comments

[gingicat]

What would halwa using carrots be like?

Wishing the meal train folks good health.

[magid]

There are different kinds of halwa, apparently; for some reason, the only one I'd run into was the carrot kind.

The meal trains are folks with new babies, so hopefully everyone is in reasonably good health.