CSA Week 10
No idea what the farmer has planed, I am copying last year’s letter! Faith and I are off to college this minute, on a day I am usually at my desk 🙂 I made summer pasta for her last lunch home. Maybe it will work out for you too! Chunk up about 4 tomatoes, a ball of fresh mozz, a hunk of brie, a bunch of basil, maybe a tsp or so of coarse salt fresh pepper, 3 cloves of garlic minced, about a cup of your favorite olive oil…let rest together for as long as you can. Add a full box of cooked pasta (I use farfalle) toss well, enjoy!
Recipes
Farm Dirt
The Franklinia tree is blooming, that’s pretty cool, though, it is looking a little rough around the edges…too much rain I assume 🙁 Even my ornamental Butterbur has melted (think the with in Wizard of Oz). Botanists John and son William Bartram discovered the tree along the banks of a river in Georgia in 1765. They named the tree after good friend Benjamin Franklin. Interestingly, William returned to collect seed several years later…good thing! The tree was extinct 50 years later and all the trees we enjoy today are decedents from those seed William collected.
Just read there are no pick-your-own apples in Massachusetts this year. Blessedly, we do have a crop, not near what it was last year, but there are apples. Here’s the heads up that some of our apples are not as beautiful as usual – but they taste great! You may find some heavy scabbing/scarring on the exterior. That happened from the extreme chill in May, but then some of the apples that were not killed altogether grew out of it. Eating-wise, the texture of the skin is a little thick where there is scab…if you don’t care for it, just peel that affected part.
Example of bad damage, but still a lot of fruit here – this is like a half pound fruit, you wouldn’t want us to throw that away would you?
We are delighted to finally be picking a decent amount of tomatoes! You should see them regularly for a while now, and I am hoping to slip some basil into your bag soon for those tomatoes. Glenn scouted the next crop of tomatoes and they are setting nicely and if we can keep the disease at bay, should keep us in tomatoes through the Fall.
Eat well,
Geneviève Stillman
