CSA Week 8
This week you MAY have squash, cukes, lettuce, some type of greens, peppers, beans, Early Mac apples! blueberries, dill?
It looks like we may have dill to accompany the cucumbers, courtesy of Still Life Farm. Fresh dill is so delightful and such a perfect companion to the cukes. If you cannot use it right away, either freeze in a zipper bag or make some dill salt and dehydrate in the oven for later seasoning of your tater salad or sprinkling on cucumber slices.
Early Macs! Super excited to be harvesting some apples already. It’s been slim pickins around these here parts, so adding the first apples of the season and still having blueberries is pretty awesome. Normally we would be celebrating eggplants, and abundance of tomatoes and corn right now, and since we are not, we must rejoice in what we do have 🙂 Fruit is goooood.
Recipes
Ugh, wrote lots about eggplant last year…sadness, I love eggplant and have not seen one yet this year.
Eat the apples fresh. Please store in the fridge of not eating right away -early apples don’t store well.
Tzatziki
1 cup Greek whole milk yogurt (if you start subbing, be aware of extra liquid)
1 cucumber grated, salted and drained as previously noted
2 cloves minced garlic
1 tsp lemon juice or wine vinegar
2 Tb olive oil
2 TB chopped fresh dill (which is not compulsory for Tzatziki)
S & P
Whisk the yogurt until smooth, add other ingredients. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper. Chill for several hours to mellow the garlic.
Cook your beans and then add a good lump of butter and some chopped dill to enjoy the summer flavors together.
Zucchini Galette – King Arthur
From Member Paul, these turned out great!
https://smittenkitchen.com/2018/07/corn-fritters/
https://smittenkitchen.com/2010/08/perfect-blueberry-muffins/
Member Michelle sent me this:
Farm Dirt
The garlic is curing nicely and awaits us stripping off some outer paper and trimming the neck – that’s exciting!
The tomatoes look good, just nothing ripening one them…we are picking so very few right now. The greenhouse crops (yes, all of them) got decimated by a new disease. We are well armed for next year so that won’t happen to all of us again. Some peppers are happening and the plants have some catching up to do, but we are hopeful. Glenn says there are quite a few of the long sweet ones – those are Carmen and I LOVE them! I have not seen any, but maybe you will.
The field that I pictured last week (under water) got planted today! I am so happy to be reporting more positive news. Keep the positive thoughts flowing so we can continue planting and crops can keep maturing…we all want a GREAT CSA season!
Yesterday I looked out to see a Great Blue Heron strolling through the yard! Well, there are new ponds everywhere, after alll.
Thank you!
Eat well,
Geneviève Stillman
Coming up: tomatoes? eggplant? more peaches?
