09' CSA Basket Journal's #17 & #18; Volume 2
9/17/2009 5:03pm by Matthew and Allison Mills Neal
CSA Basket Journal's #17 & #18; Volume 2
Sept. 9th & Sept 16th
Basket #17
What Genus Specie Varieties your basket contains:
1.) French Sorrel
2.) Desert King Peach Fleshed Watermelon & Crimson Sweet Watermelon
3.)Purple Beauty and Healthy Bell Sweet Peppers
4.)Applegreen Eggplant
5.)Delicata Winter Squash (long slender winter squash with edible skin)
6.)Provider Green Snap Beans
7.)Summer Squash and Zucchini of Golden Scallopini, Reve Dark Green Scallopini,
Cocozelle or Ronde de Nice Zucchini
Basket #18
What Genus Specie Varieties your basket contains:
1.) Mix of large, medium, and small heirloom summer tomatoes
2.)Purple Beauty, Nepoleon Long Sweets, and Healthy Peppers
3.)Bunch of Radishes with Greens....French Breakfast, Pink Beauty, and Rudolf
4.)Young White Russian Kale (great to be used raw in salads since it is so young and
tender!)
5.)Citrus Basil
6.)Sugar Dumpling Winter Squashes
7.)Black Turtle Dry Shell Beans
Good Afternoon to everyone! The rains have still continued to fall here from when we saw all of you, our morning members, in the pouring rain yesterday. There was a brief reprieve from the rains during our on farm afternoon pick-up, but really other than that the rains have really just been falling. The fall row crops are really coming along and we know they are loving all of the great rain. The Outstanging in the Field event came just in time before all the rains started on Monday morning. Sunday really turned out to be a beautiful day and beautiful event. The long dinner table that sat a sold out crowd of 130 people really put forth five courses of flavor, with the help of Chef Martha Stamps, the Outstanding in the Field Crew, and of course all of our delicious organic vegetables and local certified organic meats and grains from West Winds Farm and Windy Acres Farm.
I hope everyone has enjoyed picking your dry beans. Who would have thought that you would have been able to have a hand in this year's black bean harvest?? Again, here is the steps for picking your dry beans:
1. If you are not able to get to them for a few days, hang them in a dry place free of moisture until
you can get to them.
2. When you get to them, grab the base of the plant and turn up side down and pull off the beans
with you other hand, placing the bean pod in a large bowl or bag.
3. After you have removed all the bean pods, you can then go ahead a shell them by removing the dark as coal black turtle beans and placing them in a bowl.
4. Next you can set some aside to be used fresh this week and then the remainign can either be frozen or stored in a airtight jar. When I say fresh, this does not mean eaten raw, but to be soaked and then cooked like one does for bulk purchased dry beans, or like you would have done with your Tiger's Eye Dry Beans.
Here is a quick meal idea in which I prepared last night:
I baked the Sugar dumpling winter squash by cutting in half vertically from the center stem and rubbing them in olive oil and placing flesh up in a roasting pan. They baked at 415 for about 40-45 minutes. While they were baking I chopped some pepper and radishes and tossed them with some olive oil and salt. Then I chopped some citrus basil and softened some butter and mixed the butter with the chopped basil and added some honey and salt. I had some homemade honey bran wheat bread that I toasted. I cut some sharp raw cheddar cheese and got out some walnuts.
The final plate consisted of the sugar dumpling squash halves, the pepper and radish salad, the cheese, the walnuts, and the citrus butter. The citrus butter was delicious spread on the toast with the radish and pepper salad placed on top.
Have a great week and Thanks,
Allison
Sept. 9th & Sept 16th
Basket #17
What Genus Specie Varieties your basket contains:
1.) French Sorrel
2.) Desert King Peach Fleshed Watermelon & Crimson Sweet Watermelon
3.)Purple Beauty and Healthy Bell Sweet Peppers
4.)Applegreen Eggplant
5.)Delicata Winter Squash (long slender winter squash with edible skin)
6.)Provider Green Snap Beans
7.)Summer Squash and Zucchini of Golden Scallopini, Reve Dark Green Scallopini,
Cocozelle or Ronde de Nice Zucchini
Basket #18
What Genus Specie Varieties your basket contains:
1.) Mix of large, medium, and small heirloom summer tomatoes
2.)Purple Beauty, Nepoleon Long Sweets, and Healthy Peppers
3.)Bunch of Radishes with Greens....French Breakfast, Pink Beauty, and Rudolf
4.)Young White Russian Kale (great to be used raw in salads since it is so young and
tender!)
5.)Citrus Basil
6.)Sugar Dumpling Winter Squashes
7.)Black Turtle Dry Shell Beans
Good Afternoon to everyone! The rains have still continued to fall here from when we saw all of you, our morning members, in the pouring rain yesterday. There was a brief reprieve from the rains during our on farm afternoon pick-up, but really other than that the rains have really just been falling. The fall row crops are really coming along and we know they are loving all of the great rain. The Outstanging in the Field event came just in time before all the rains started on Monday morning. Sunday really turned out to be a beautiful day and beautiful event. The long dinner table that sat a sold out crowd of 130 people really put forth five courses of flavor, with the help of Chef Martha Stamps, the Outstanding in the Field Crew, and of course all of our delicious organic vegetables and local certified organic meats and grains from West Winds Farm and Windy Acres Farm.
I hope everyone has enjoyed picking your dry beans. Who would have thought that you would have been able to have a hand in this year's black bean harvest?? Again, here is the steps for picking your dry beans:
1. If you are not able to get to them for a few days, hang them in a dry place free of moisture until
you can get to them.
2. When you get to them, grab the base of the plant and turn up side down and pull off the beans
with you other hand, placing the bean pod in a large bowl or bag.
3. After you have removed all the bean pods, you can then go ahead a shell them by removing the dark as coal black turtle beans and placing them in a bowl.
4. Next you can set some aside to be used fresh this week and then the remainign can either be frozen or stored in a airtight jar. When I say fresh, this does not mean eaten raw, but to be soaked and then cooked like one does for bulk purchased dry beans, or like you would have done with your Tiger's Eye Dry Beans.
Here is a quick meal idea in which I prepared last night:
I baked the Sugar dumpling winter squash by cutting in half vertically from the center stem and rubbing them in olive oil and placing flesh up in a roasting pan. They baked at 415 for about 40-45 minutes. While they were baking I chopped some pepper and radishes and tossed them with some olive oil and salt. Then I chopped some citrus basil and softened some butter and mixed the butter with the chopped basil and added some honey and salt. I had some homemade honey bran wheat bread that I toasted. I cut some sharp raw cheddar cheese and got out some walnuts.
The final plate consisted of the sugar dumpling squash halves, the pepper and radish salad, the cheese, the walnuts, and the citrus butter. The citrus butter was delicious spread on the toast with the radish and pepper salad placed on top.
Have a great week and Thanks,
Allison
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