CSA # 7 July 19th
Good evening everyone!
Hope your all hanging in there during this hot week! If it's true that sweating cleanses the toxins from your body I would say I am toxin free after this week! We've been starting at about 7:00 and sweating by 7:15 and have managed to work through it all with lots of water. Our usual beach escape wasn't even an option this week since they were closed. Hopefully the stormy weather they are calling for tonight isn't too bad and the temps cool down a bit.
Here's a picture my husband snuck of me weeding before the sunset in the greenhouse followed by one I took of him tilling as the sun rose!
I was scrolling down this newsletter and was able to see the growth of this particular lettuce bed. 3 weeks and it's crazy big!
Since we are overflowing with lettuce there is a double share in your baskets this week.
In your basket this week:
2 bags of Chez Nous Mix
1 bag of sprouts sunflower or peas
Northern Quebec Garlic fresh from the fields
1 small bag of Tomatoes
1 small bag of zucchini's peppers
basil and oregano
I hope you are liking the sprouts. They are selling really well for us and we love them. You will be noticing zucchini's of all shapes and sizes in your baskets. The flying saucer shaped ones are called patty pans and are eaten just like zucchini's.
We started digging up garlic today. What a long job that is and in this heat, thought i was going to die! I've got 2 rows out of 10 done. The first variety you are getting is called Northern Quebec and later on you will get Chesnok Red which is a purple kind.
A few of our peppers have some earlies ready. To the left is Purple Beauty and it taste just like a green Bell. In the middle is Shishoutou which has med heat and the kinda wrinkly yellow one on the left is Aji Cristal and they are med-to hot. Aji Cristal they say is good eaten immature and i've eaten some straight in the field but I guess I've built up quite a tolerance to hot. Being so used to eating hot makes it hard for me to judge what you would think is hot. I can put these in a pan with a few zucchini, olive oil,oregano, cheese and salt and much away. So I guess it would be helpful to know if any of you can not tolerate hot at all and i will see what i can do to work around it. I will always let you know when i have included hot peppers and package the sweet and hot separately.
I wonder if any of you tried the Ligurian Kale, Chard & and Potato Torta recipe from last week, we really liked it. I put a little too much cheese but i didn't measure so that would explain. The dough was really easy to work with and doesn't not stick. I often don't really enjoy crust but this one I loved. I also upped the greens and think I could add more. It would obviously freeze well also.
And last I came across a great article on some of these items you get in a CSA basket that you might not know what to do with. It was funny and had some great recipes and tips.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelysanders/confusing-scary-csa-vegetables-recipes
And last, we are hoping to sneak in some kind of summer vacation with our kids and we obviously can't go far. We are looking to you our CSA customers since many of you are cottagers or are from the area and might just know someone who would have a cottage in the area for rent.
Well looks like a storm is about to hit us so time to go!
Shirley and Rick
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