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Farm share, week 14

Not at all sekrit message to Bbbsg and Teddywolf: your tomatoes are here. Come by sometime tonight to get them.

The farm share this week included:

• a head of garlic
  
• two onions (well, "one or two", but for me, that's definitely two. I took yellow, not red.)
  
• a head of lettuce (green leaf)
  
• 1.8 pounds of carrots
  
• 2.25 pounds of tomatoes (I got a Striped German and another small red one.)
  
• a bunch of red radishes with greens
  
• a bunch of arugula
  
• two little hot peppers (not long and thin, more egg/oval shaped, but not sure what kind)
  
• a winter squash (I took a carnival.)

And I got two 20-lb boxes of mixed tomato seconds, for a total of $20. Almost half are going away as is, and some will be going away once they're sauce-ized (since I just don't assume the woman who just gave birth has time/energy for making tomato sauce just now...). They're definitely seconds, some a bit past their prime, or already cracked, but still very cookable.

This was also a ( Boston Organics week. )

What to do with 22 pounds of tomato seconds

Just a bit more than a third of a tomato minute...

Sort through to pull the ones that are in good shape (about 4 pounds), mostly the little red ones with small yellow-gold stripes.

Start chopping some of the rest.( Read more... )