[local eating] Farm share week 4, fish share week 8

[magid]

The fish I got Monday was not fillets (I think their accounting is off, and had it been fillets again this week it would have gotten back into balance), a headless hake (it still sounds like it should be an Encyclopedia Brown adventure, The Case of the Headless Hake). I filleted it, freezing the frame and skin for when I transplant the Pretty in Purple pepper plant I bought last week, and baking the pieces with the usual kind of topping. Hake is very meaty, and there's a lot of it: the baking tray was full.

This week in veggies:

• a lettuce (red leaf)
  
• a bunch of carrots with greens
  
• five summer squash (I chose four small zucchini and one medium golden one)
  
• a bunch of herbs (I got there on the late side, so there wasn't any dill left; I opted for basil instead)
  
• a head of cabbage (the kind that looks like a fat ear of corn)
  
• a bunch of collards or kale (I chose purple kale: any lacinato was gone, but the collards didn't look as happy as the kale)
  
• a bunch of pearl onions with greens (I got one of the last bunches of red onions)
  
• a third of a pound of spinach
  
• two bunches of beets (I chose regular red ones, and in talking about beet pickles with the coordinator, got offered an extra bunch)
  
• five cucumbers (cute little pickling ones, and I chose the smallest ones I could find)

Current thoughts: pickle the beets; sautee their greens, the spinach, and the onions with sesame-soy sauce, and possibly nut butter; start a batch of sauerkraut with cabbage, kale, and carrots; make a cucumber-feta salad with lemon and mint; roast the zukes.