Farm share, week 11

This week’s email let me know that there won’t be any ripe sweet peppers (only hots and green = unripe sweet peppers), because little worms that are the larval stage of pepper maggot flies showed up, and they nom on sweet peppers (but leave the others alone). Nothing to be done about them because the farm is organic, so if I want ripe bell peppers, to the farmers’ market I will go. (So lucky to have options!)

• 6 medium yellow onions
  
• 6 heads of garlic
  
• 6 summer squash/zucchini (I chose large-ish green zucchinis again)
  
• 8 medium eggplants (I chose a mix of Italian, light purple, and variegated purple-white)
  
• 2 pounds of orange carrots
  
• 2 pounds of Chioggia beets
  
• 2 big heads of romaine lettuce
  
• 22 medium-small tomatoes
  
• take-what-you-want herbs and hot peppers (I chose some of the two types of hots (jalapeno and I think cayenne), plus a lot of parsley, some red shiso, and a bit of sage)

First thoughts: can some crushed tomatoes. Roasted beets and carrots. Roasted eggplant and zucchini. Green salad (for romaine, I think I should get some Parmesan and make some croutons). Bulghur with diced tomatoes and parsley (hrm, if I have bulghur right now). A vinaigrette salad of some sort or another. Some kind of eggplant-based Indian dish?