'Til June!

Yesterday I picked up the second and final winter share. It was really different from the first one, which was fun.

Here's the take:

• 1 bag of sweet potatoes! These are the first sweet potatoes that I've had since I joined the farm. There have been deer issues, woodchuck problems, and then mysterious happenings. So thank heavens! I love sweet potatoes.
• 3 bags of root veggies, including carrots, turnips, beets, and rutabagas.
• 1 bag of assorted apples.
• 1 bag of spinach (no lettuce this time).
• 1 crown of kale.
• 3 red onions.
• 3 white onions.
• 1 bag of russet potatoes.
• 1 bag of red potatoes.
• 2 celeriac.
• 5 garlic.
• 8 dried hot peppers.
• 2 bags of herbs, and I picked sage and lavender.
• 1 bag of tea herbs, and I picked lemon balm.
• 3 ears of popcorn.
• 1 delicata squash.
• 3 butternut squash.
• 1 carnival squash.
• 1 loaf of pumpkin cranberry bread.
• 1 bag of maple roasted almonds.

I also bought some eggs from the Codman barn, and some honey. I went to Wilson Farms today, and noticed that their Boston Honey Co. honey was $8, where I can get it from the farm for $5. They have reasonably priced jellies and hot sauces too. Good fun!

Meat! (and Thanksgiving)

Today I picked up my December meat share. Kim was pretty relieved that turkey season is over. Her monthly pickup email talked about past turkeys that grew the size of emus and other turkeys that were eaten before they were harvested! But this year, lots of normal-sized turkeys, and not many casualties.

This month's meat share:

• 2 packages of 2 lamb rack rib chops.
• 1 smoked bacon.
• 1 bacon ends.
• 1 pork garlic and cheese sausage.
• 1 maple sugar cured bone-in ham steak.
• 1 package of ground beef.
• 1 package of beef stew beef.
  1 chicken breast.
  2 packages of pork loin chops.

Last week we had, of course, Thanksgiving dinner. I went to my parents' with two of my siblings, and Eun Jung came too. It was her first turkey, and mom let her baste it, "I saw them do this on TV." We had a ham from the farm too, and it cooked much faster than we thought. But it tasted great.

I brought mom a squash from the farm, that was delicious! And I brought the apple pie from The Food Project (yum!), and a pumpkin pie that I made from a farm pumpkin. The farm pumpkin was try #2. First try, well...remember that evaporated milk should NOT be chunky. Second try was quite yummy.

The ham:

The pie (thanks to a coworker's recipe!)