Farm veggies, week 18

[magid]

(Yes, yes, the season's almost over. Only two weeks left.)

This week's share included:

• two sweet dumpling squashes
  
• a small pumpkin
  
• carrots
  
• twenty-two little red hot peppers, two different kinds
  
• a big bunch of big red radishes, with greens (the stalks look rather like rhubarb)
  
• a big bunch of spinach
  
• four tomatillos
  
• a small bunch of kale
  
• a big bunch of tat soi or pac choi or something like that
  
• and as many green tomatoes as I wanted

I took a bunch of the tomatoes, thinking I might try making fried green tomatoes, even without lard, or some kind of chutney, or something (an email this morning included a green tomato and pear chutney [er, recipe!] that looks nice).

Seen for sale (and certainly not bought by me!): a large cookie, with hard white frosting on it, dark lines like from a coloring book on top, defining the shape, packaged with three (special) colored pens, so kids can color their cookies, then eat them. Ugh.

Comments

[magid.livejournal.com]

The ink is definitely non-toxic; I checked the packaging. Still, there are a lot of things that aren't toxic that aren't ideal to ingest.

If they had packaged food coloring in little bottles, or something, and labeled them "food coloring", I think it would bother me less. But the pens look like regular thin markers of some sort, easily mixed in with other markers (and in most houses I've been in with kids, all the markers do get mixed up).

I like the idea of decorating cookies, but crossing that with coloring books just makes me shudder, somehow. I suppose it doesn't help that I'm not particularly fond of coloring books, either (all it encourages is color choice, not any other kind of creativity, and comments about staying within the lines).