I do keep things clean! I swear! But I have this thing about living in backwoods cottages, where the mice really don't think a house is any different from a tree, and the ants hang out, and you get roots in the pipes. But I moved to a city! I live in a big brick box! No normal living creature wants to hang with me. That is, unless they are too small to care, and have an unlimited food supply.
I was craving eggplant parm at 11pm last night after the debate. Great. Cut up the eggplant, pulled out the last two eggs, everything was fine, and then...in my breadcrumbs...and infestation. It was gross. It was in the "baking" cupboard. Near the flour. Near the two bags of sugar that Elena and I accidentally bought within days of each other. A veritable bug feast!
So, after chucking most of what was in the cupboard, Jean and I decided to make breadcrumbs. Two slices of bread and an English muffin was all we had. Plus I had herbs from the farm that day. We toasted the whole mess with salt and pepper, then food processed it, and they were the most beautiful breadcrumbs I've ever eaten. The meal came out pretty good.
This week's share was pretty good. Tomatoes are done, and it was the last week for peppers and eggplant. Frost hit pretty hard, and the basil was dead dead dead. But, more squash...
- 1 bag of salad mix.
- 1 acorn squash.
- 1 butternut squash.
- 10 leaves of kale.
- 2 bulbs of garlic.
- 1 bag of mix n' match, including peppers, little eggplant, 4 onions, carrots, turnips, beets, and celeriac, which is also known as celeriac. I had to ask about this one. You can peel the root and chop it up and use it in cooking like celery, or you can use the leaves, also in cooking.
- 1/2 pint of raspberries. It was so cold out! And the sun goes down early, so picking was tough.
- Herbs herbs herbs!
- 1/2 peck of apples and pears. Yay pears!
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