What's in the shares this week.....
Escarole- This will be mostly frisee, a nice mild flavored escarole. This is in the lettuce family, but with thicker leaves and a slightly more bitter flavor, it holds up to cooking unlike lettuce. Here is a nice recipe Bobbi found that will also use up some of the beets and potatoes in your share:
http://www.cookinglight.com/recipes/two-potato-beet-hash-with-poached-eggs-greens
Broccoli- Our Fall brassicas are all coming on a bit later than I wanted....I was hoping we would have cauliflower for the shares this week, but I don't think enough of it is ready quite yet. We have quite a bit of broccoli still coming on, though, and I bought a bit of extra from Georgie at Willowood Farm just in case we were short....
Carrots- As you probably noticed last week, we are into a new bed of carrots where the roots are not as big, so we are back to the more modest sized carrots which are nice. Still the delicious Hilmar variety that we've been picking all season though.
http://www.cookinglight.com/recipes/balsamic-onion-thyme-carrots
http://www.cookinglight.com/recipes/vegan-carrot-cake-truffles
Beets- A big bunch of mixed beets with red and chioggia and maybe some gold beets. See the recipe above for the hash!
Kale- Our fall kale is really kicking butt. It rebounded from some dry late Summer struggles to be truly abundant, and delicious.
Copra onions- These are our yellow storage onions, which are a bit less sweet and a bit more pungent, and store much better that the sweet yellow onions. We had all our onions drying in the greenhouse through September, but then we moved them out to make room for all the winter squash, so now they are in storage in our shed and should hopefully be good for many more weeks or months.
Potatoes- The last of our potatoes! I decided to plant fewer potatoes this year, thinking that it would be an easy way to downsize the planted space on the farm a bit, and an easy crop to buy from other farmers. I planted as many as I thought we would need in the Summer. But thanks to good yields and not starting to dig them too early this year, they lasted much further into the season than I expected! I have bought some from Georgie for the stand already, and will mix in a bit of hers to make sure we have enough for all the shares. Again, see the hash recipe above!
And in large shares only....
Kabocha buttercup squash- These green kabocha squash have always done amazing on the farm in past years, but for some mysterious reason they really underperformed this year with lower yields, so we don't have a ton of them. They are a really nice winter squash, with dry almost crumbly orange flesh that is really flavorful....a Japanese squash closely related to the Red Kuri, even though they look nothing alike.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11783-winter-squash-and-pork-stir-fry
Peppers- Maybe the last of the peppers! I love it when the peppers go til Halloween and beyond!
Tomato- And the final tomatoes too. We haven't had tomatoes til this late in the Season for many years on the farm, if we ever have. In a greenhouse it is easy to have tomatoes til late in the Fall, because they stay dry, but our outside tomatoes are usually too susceptible to disease to make it this late. Hurray! I am trying to enjoy them while they last, because it will be many months before we have nice home grown tomatoes again.
Parsley/herbs- A nice bunch of fresh parsley or another herb to add to your fall recipes...
I am trying to keep up, but feeling very out of touch with what's going on at the farm these days. I've been working Monday through Friday and stopping by the farm on the evenings on the way home....I had planned to spend some time on the farm on Saturday, but then the weather was so gross I lost all motivation, sadly. It is so nice to now have an extended dry period in the forecast though! When it got so wintery I was sure that our dry season was long gone, but there may be a little bit left in the tank.
Bobbi and I are excited going into the holidays this year that Nico will be old enough to understand and be interested and excited about stuff like Halloween, Santa Claus and all that stuff for the first time. It should be sweet to see her learning about Thanksgiving and Christmas and seeing how it all works now that she's really interested in trying to figure things out.
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