cherry tomatoes - of which there are never enough because I always finish my portion in the first hour they are in the house. Though they did make a lovely salad with the greens and some leftover cucumber.
I think it's week #12 but I've sort of lost track while I was away.
TOMATOES- Seven giant big red beefsteak tomatoes. Fennel Green Bell peppers Red Bell pepper Cherry tomatoes - sadly only a tiny handful of them Red Batavia lettuce Nicola potatoes
Beets Zucchini Savoy cabbage Red onions Basil Romaine lettuce Cucumber Red Norland Potatoes
I did my volunteer hours handing out shares on Thursday and as a special bonus I got some leftover peaches and blueberries that came with the fruit share. I promptly made pie:
Blueberry Peach Pie
1/2 pint of blueberries 6 large peaches and I probably dumped almost a full cup of flour and at least 3 tablespoons of tapioca to try to make it less watery. And it worked! Finally a peach pie that isn't a liquidy mass.
When I got back from Israel the greens from two weeks of CSA plus the week I had just picked up were a bit out of hand and so I made lasagna. This used up several kinds of onions as well as Swiss Chard and kale.
For the record the CSA weeks I didn't get photos of included:
Week #7 -Zucchini, Romaine lettuce, Toscano Kale, Broccoli, Scallions, Swiss Chard, Cucumber, Basil, Corn. The corn was an unexpected surprise and though the ears were small it was pretty good corn. I was also pleased to miss most of the zucchini run as it falls on the list of vegetables I just really don't care for.
Toscano Kale (which a preliminary internet search leads to very few suggestions for, but I imagine works like most kinds of Kale)
Garlic Scapes (given over to my share partner for the cause of pesto)
Baby Spinach (according to them anyway it's baby spinach, more like adolescent spinach)
Baby Arugula
Red Boston lettuce (leading to the conclusion that the first week's Red Boston lettuce was really in fact Romaine because this clearly looked like a red version of Boston lettuce)
Beets
Kohlrabi (which looks sort of like an alien egg baby that I really have no idea what to do with.)
A huge head of Escarole (the above picture is only half of the share)
A head of Romaine lettuce
a head of Boston lettuce
2 Baby Japanese Salad Turnips (sadly only two...I really liked these last week)
a big bunch of Swiss chard
baby bok choy
and garlic scapes
Garlic scapes seem to be the darling of the food blogging world and I've never tried them, so I'm somewhat excited, although they don't look like much amidst all the other produce.
It's been a while since I've posted anything because I've been very busy with the end of the school semester and a lot of paper writing, but now that it is over I am ready for a summer of cooking, baking, sewing, beading and being generally crafty. Yesterday was the first pick up of the season for the CSA I joined and here is the bounty:
There is red and green Boston lettuce (I never knew it came in multiple varieties!), French breakfast radishes, Baby Japanese salad turnips, arugala, spinach, rhubarb and strawberries.
I made a salad today using CSA produce and some leftovers in my fridge and discovered that Japanese salad turnips might just be my new favorite thing. It was a fantastic salad and with the heat and humidity that we've been having it was very filling and refreshing. Stay tuned for my first strawberry-rhubarb pie!
The Duchy of Domesticity is the home of all the domestic projects that I feel like sharing with the world. Primarily at the moment this is pie. Because who doesn't like pie?
