Cooking

The one thing about fresh vegetables is that you spend a lot of time preparing them. And then cleaning up after them. It always feels worth it once dinner is ready, but you have to get dinner ready! I've been eating a lot of raw veggie wraps, just lettuce, peppers, turnips, dressing.

This week I made a nice edamame cous cous. The farm tells us to just pull up a couple edamame plants and pick off the pods when you get home. This means that you have these plants at home, and you have to deal with them before you even start cooking! But it's efficient at the farm. Anyway, I picked off the pods, then washed them and boiled them until the pods softened. I cooked up a cup of cous cous and added some sunflower seeds. Then I removed the beans from the pods and added them to the cous cous. A bit of salt n' pepper, and some poppyseed dressing, and it was good stuff. It has protein and sunflower seed fat, so it's been a satisfying midafternoon snack.

Today I made a squash kale risotto that came out great. I also made a spicy ham apple stirfry that was just weird. I think that I tend to enjoy the adventure more than the final product.

And on to this week's share!

• 1 head of lettuce
• 1 bag of salad mix
• 2 bulbs of garlic
• 2 green tomatoes (I made fried green tomatoes last year and they were awful, but they were awful in the movie too, so maybe that's just how they are)
  
• 10 leaves of kale
• 1 bag of mix n' match, including onions, hot and sweet peppers, potatoes, turnips large and small, and beets.
• 1/2 pint of husk cherries. I didn't get any of these all year by choice, but I tried them today in the field and they're really good!
• 1 pint of tomatillos. I've been skipping these too, but since tomatoes are sparse and they seem to be holding up well, and I need more vitamin C, I picked up a bunch.
• 2 edamame plants.
• 1/2 a pint of raspberries.

It was also ok to get more beans, flowers, and herbs, but I skipped on these this week.

Fruit share:

• 1/2 peck of apples. I need to make another pie...

And tomorrow is the meat share! I got an email from the farm saying that the place where they get the lambs processed in New Hampshire was flooded recently, so no lamb this month. I hope that the plant is able to recover. Anyway, looking forward to the share, and to the last time the share is during the Arlington Farmer's Market. I believe that they close at the end of this month, so it's a good time to check them out. I like to pick up the flavored goat cheese and fresh fish, plus there are plenty of veggies, a nice shrub stand, and lots of other interesting products.