Farm share, week 3

[magid]

It started raining just as I got to the distribution point; I hadn't realized that there's a slab of corrugated metal (if corrugated metal can be called a slab) above that exit from Harvest, so the veggies stayed dry.

This week's bounty:

• a bunch of cute beets with greens
  
• two (hothouse) tomatoes
  
• a bunch of scallions (very thin ones, with all the greens)
  
• two heads of lettuce; I got green leaf (absolutely enormous) and red leaf (merely big), and there was romaine as an option, too
  
• up to three pounds of greens, choosing from chard, spinach (I got half of the last of it), and purple flat-leaf kale; I got about a pound and a half of spinach and chard, which may end up feeding my freezer for now
  
• up to six pounds of: one stalk of broccoli, one (corn-shaped) head of cabbage, a bunch of radishes, garlic scapes, something else that was already gone, and however many zucchinis and summer squashes you could face; I ended up with a broccoli (it's almost purple), a couple of garlic scapes, and about five and a half pounds of zukes and squish, so any and all recipes or ideas for them are extremely welcome (I'm wishing I had meunster cheese, so I could make my mom's summer dinner of sauteed zukes, squish, and onions topped with cheese.)

Oh, and I might drive out to the farm Sunday, to pick strawberries and sugar snap peas, too.

Note to self: consider leaving the car closer to Central on Wednesdays as the share gets heavier.

Comments

[magid.livejournal.com]

Ooh, zuke latkes, what a neat idea! And I have lots of onions (and even leeks) to pair with them, too. Between these and the possibility of zucchini bread, I'm glad I now have a food processor!

I don't manage breaded and fried things well, for some reason. Though these would be easier than fish, at least, so it might be good practice.

And in my neighborhood, people do tend to leave their cars locked :-)
(Otoh, I don't have to take many if I don't want to; anything left at the end of the distribution goes to Food for Free, so it's not going to be wasted.)

[bitty.livejournal.com]

LATKES. FEED BITTY LATKES.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Potato ones? Carb and grease-laden ones? Or the newer, slim-line, zucchini latkes? :-)

[bitty.livejournal.com]

YES PLEASE

[magid.livejournal.com]

Noted. Though I will point out that you're going out of town...

[bitty.livejournal.com]

There'll be a sudden paucity of zucchinis next week?

[magid.livejournal.com]

It could happen! The weather, for instance, could be cloudy with a chance of fat men from outer space obsessed with zucchini.

[bitty.livejournal.com]

which would, of course, solve the problem of too much zucchini in the first place.