Farm share, weeks 5 & 6, and mushroom share, weeks 7 & 8

Last week, I was out of town, and the friends who picked up let me know what arrived:( Read more... )

In this week's box:

• two purple peppers and two green peppers
  
• two jalapeno peppers
  
• two heads of red leaf lettuce
  
• a bunch of green chard
  
• seven carrots
  
• three fresh onions
  
• two medium Italian (violet) eggplants
  
• four zucchini, one golden zucchini, and a summer squash
  
• a bunch of cilantro (given away at the pickup)
  
• five pickling cucumbers
  
• portobello mushrooms (probably my least favorite 'fancy' mushroom, because they's so overused, but mushrooms are definitely better than no mushrooms!)

First thoughts: cook the chard with onion, lemon, and pine nuts. Lots of green salad with the lettuce and cucumber. Perhaps a roasted ratatouille with the squashes, peppers, onions, and eggplant. Perhaps pickle the carrots and hot peppers.