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

[bitty.livejournal.com]

There is no really *efficient* way to dispose of zucchini. The zucchini will always be ahead of you, will always win. Go with some small battles.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm certainly not disposing of 5.5 lb of mixed summer squash in one go (even putting in the freezer after being cooked would take up far more freezer real estate than I'm willing to give it.

Hm. I wonder if there are zuke pickles...?

AHA!

[magid.livejournal.com]

There are zuke pickle recipes galore out there, ranging from some sweet ones, sour ones, dilled ones, and even curried ones (that look rather like a chutney).