[local eating] Veg (7) and fish (11)

This week's farm share:

• two tomatoes
  
• a head of garlic
  
• four ears of corn
  
• half a pound of basil
  
• two-thirds of a pound of baby beet greens, micro beets still attached (ie, beet thinnings)
  
• a head of lettuce (I got red leaf)
  
• a pound of pickling cukes
  
• a pound of summer squash/zukes (all zukes for me)
  
• a pound and half of new, red-skinned potatoes (I chose a couple of big ones, the rest tiny, for some fabulous dish as yet undetermined)
  
• a bunch of chard
  
• two Ailsa Craig onions

Corn and tomato salad! With basil, cuke, and maybe feta! Also possible: garlicky cucumber pickles, sauteed greens with sesame-soy sauce, roasted zucchinis with onions, basil pureed with olive oil (some to freeze for later, some perhaps to go over the tiny potatoes). Added bonus for going late to the distribution: getting to see a teen dance group perform in the parking lot.

This week's fish share was cod fillets. I was too hot to deal with it Monday when I got them, and couldn't face cooking on a fast day, so I baked them this morning, topped with cumin, mayo, and white wheat flour. Not bad, but not exciting either.

What is exciting is how well the porch plants are doing, with lots of Sweet Million (small) tomatoes just about ready to pick, lots of herbs whenever, and hot peppers coming along. Yum.