Farm share week 8, and an organics delivery

[magid]

This week's share included:

• a head of lettuce (I took red leaf.)
  
• two pounds of tomatoes (I think I got there too late to get any of the funky heirloom kinds. Next week...)
  
• a pound of pickling cucumbers
  
• three quarters of a pound of summer squash (and/or zucchini, but that was gone by the time I arrived. I did get one summer squash that's part green around one end (the kind that are deliberately so.))
  
• two pounds of peppers (I got some long red ones, some white bell ones, and some purple bell ones.)
  
• a bunch of cilantro (Well, not really; I gave it away without even touching it. I wish I could eat cilantro.)
  
• a pound of onions (three medium)
  
• a head of garlic
  
• a bunch of carrots
  
• two small heads of fennel

I'm debating finally trying to make pickles, and perhaps using the feathery fennel tops as a seasoning. Any thoughts? Also, any favorite fennel recipes?

Also a Boston Organics week for me. The delivery included:

• three stalks of broccoli
  
• four bananas
  
• a cantaloupe
  
• a cucumber (the usual supermarket size, which tends to have largish seeds. I have the smaller ones, which I like better. So, anyone want it?)
  
• a bag (half pound?) of green beans
  
• two ears of corn (Given what they said in the newsletter, I wonder if it's the same place that Red Fire got their corn from last week.)
  
• three oranges
  
• three nectarines
  
• five Fortune plums (I suppose I shouldn't share my fortune, eh?)
  
• four heads of garlic

The newsletter listed all the regional items (ie, New England), and mentioned that they're going to have Maine blueberries for the rest of the season. Yay!

Yesterday I couldn't resist the farmer's market in Copley. I've eaten the mesclun with lots of cherry tomatoes (and feta, and basil, and chives), but I still have some little purple eggplants and a couple of zucchini flowers to add to today's bounty.

Comments

[magid.livejournal.com]

I can't eat cilantro because it smells/tastes like rotting food to me. It's a tastebud thing: something like 10% of people have receptors that process cilantro differently than everyone else. For a lot of these people, it tastes like soap. For me, something rotten (hey, I can get in a Fforde reference :-).

I first discovered this when I made a Thai Shabbat dinner (having never had Thai food, but having a crush on someone who had said he liked Thai.). I got the produce home and was putting it in the fridge, and wondering what had spoiled on the way home. I think I used it anyway, because I wasn't sure what else to do, and as it turned out, the recipe called for so much of the hot pepper that I couldn't taste anything else.
(It took 10 hours to make that meal, including making coconut milk, since I couldn't find any hechshered back then. Did it help get the guy? Not at all. He barely thanked me. Sigh.)