Veggies, week 2
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magidThis week's share has:
3 heads of lettuce
1 bunch of turnip greens
1 bunch cute baby white turnips (some people got radishes again) with greens
1 bunch kale (some people got collards)
1 bunch of mixed greens
1 bag of "spicy stir fry" that includes some broccoli, garlic scapes, and a hot pepper.
I definitely feel less inundated than last week. Some of it is that there is a bit less, but some of it is knowing I can cook enough to eat it all (with a little help from my friends).
The newsletter this week has something new to think about, too: they're offering an "apple share" this year. $55 gets me nine weeks of apples, half a peck a week. Depending on how the season goes, it might include peaches, pears, and/or grapes too. (This is from a partnership with Autumn Hills Orchard in Groton.) Decisions, decisions.... could do a lot with that fruit (lots of applesauce; apples for Rosh Hashanah; apple crisp; apple pie; all those other apple dessert permutations I always say I'll make and never do, like apple slump. Ooh, or apple dumplings...). If the other kinds come in, could be a bunch of jam, too. Feel free to weigh in with opinions...
Another tidbit from the newsletter: 90% of the fossil fuels used in the food system is for packaging, transportation, and marketing. Only 10% is for the actual growing.
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zzbottom, I boiled the turnips, then mashed them with butter and salt (mashed neeps!); baby white turnips turn out to be yummy this way.)
Two cute license plates in the last day or so: Vermont EGG, and Massachusetts EQUUS 2
3 heads of lettuce
1 bunch of turnip greens
1 bunch cute baby white turnips (some people got radishes again) with greens
1 bunch kale (some people got collards)
1 bunch of mixed greens
1 bag of "spicy stir fry" that includes some broccoli, garlic scapes, and a hot pepper.
I definitely feel less inundated than last week. Some of it is that there is a bit less, but some of it is knowing I can cook enough to eat it all (with a little help from my friends).
The newsletter this week has something new to think about, too: they're offering an "apple share" this year. $55 gets me nine weeks of apples, half a peck a week. Depending on how the season goes, it might include peaches, pears, and/or grapes too. (This is from a partnership with Autumn Hills Orchard in Groton.) Decisions, decisions.... could do a lot with that fruit (lots of applesauce; apples for Rosh Hashanah; apple crisp; apple pie; all those other apple dessert permutations I always say I'll make and never do, like apple slump. Ooh, or apple dumplings...). If the other kinds come in, could be a bunch of jam, too. Feel free to weigh in with opinions...
Another tidbit from the newsletter: 90% of the fossil fuels used in the food system is for packaging, transportation, and marketing. Only 10% is for the actual growing.
(Addenda: thinking of
zzbottom, I boiled the turnips, then mashed them with butter and salt (mashed neeps!); baby white turnips turn out to be yummy this way.)Two cute license plates in the last day or so: Vermont EGG, and Massachusetts EQUUS 2
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Date: 2002-06-18 09:15 pm (UTC)As previously offered, I will happily make my famous pie at your house. :)
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Date: 2002-06-19 05:54 am (UTC)Calvin and Hobbes are so sorely missed...
Hm... pie sounds good.
The newsletter didn't, of course, give any information on who to contact, etc (the guy who runs it is really the vaguest person ever). I shall have to ask the person at next week's pickup.
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