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Farmshare, Week 12 (late)
Sep. 7th, 2013 01:07 amSo, first off: This is late, and apologies for the absence of Week 11. We basically did not cook for a week: P. came home and promptly got German Con Crud, and then I got it too, and so. To add to that, last week was the mid-season break week, and so it's been more than a bit of a gap, but I haven't missed reporting a delivery.
So, that said:
Last (two weeks ago) delivery contained:
Beets
Carrots
Shelling beans
Grape tomatoes
Lettuce
Cucumber
New Zealand spinach
Mushrooms
1/2 dozen duck eggs
Spicy dal crackers
After a week on-and-off under the weather, we felt like making some proper dinner but weren't quite up to photography, so Saturday's dinner and the giant potato salad we made for a Labour Day picnic Sunday evening are lost to time. But the Russian carrot salad I made Monday evening isn't:
Da.
This was a really basic way to use up carrots: grate them up, put in some raisins, walnuts, chopped garlic, and mayo, and, well. Done. It's a side dish, I think, but I ended up eating most of it on bread as a sort of open-sandwich snack object.
Monday night was an experiment; stir-fry with Polish sausage:
It was basically the only protein we had in the house.
It was basically a case of Throw In Everything: Spanish onion, grape tomatoes, the last of the green beans, sweet pepper, some elephant garlic we got in Kensington Market a bit back. Meat Stirfry seems to soak up sauce pretty heavily--the sausage was spicy, but had a soy-sweet thing going too--and while it was interesting, not precisely my favourite outcome.
I also made bread Monday, though--currant challah--which meant Tuesday I got to do this:
It did turn into a sandwich post-picture.
Currant challah, tuna, mayo, pile of New Zealand spinach. Sometimes simple is just what you want.
By Tuesday we'd got back into the swing of things a little better, and made something proper:
Look at all those food groups!
The fish is the same recipe we made a few weeks back: cooked in a pan with a bit of salt and pepper, and all that sour cream/horseradish/dill/lemon sauce on top. We've fallen back on that one a few times, actually: it's pretty resilient, no matter what kind of fish happens to be on sale down the street (this week, it was trout).
The potatoes were all that was left after the Great Potato Salad Incident, with a bit of rosemary, garlic, and pepper; the salad is a salad.
So not a hugely inspiring week, but with that? I feel like we're back up to speed on this thing.
We're left with a surprisingly small suite of leftovers:
Swiss chard
Cauliflower (a smidge, stubbornly waiting for a cheese sauce)
Rosemary
Spanish onion
Beets
Shelling beans
Grape Tomatoes
Lettuce
Cucumber (a third or so)
New Zealand spinach
Mushrooms (bag and a half)
1 duck egg
Spicy dal crackers
This week's takings are somewhat more of the same:
Swiss chard
Red potatoes
Parsley
Grape tomatoes
Leek
Yellow beans
Mixed greens
Mushrooms
12 duck eggs
Whole grain pancake mix
The dozen eggs are a bit of a mixup, but one that I don't mind: since I'm revising as fast as my little hands will go right now, we shelled out the eight bucks to get this delivered, and there was a miscommunication about how many eggs. I'm just going to square it with them next week--either not take my share then or just pay the difference--but since we had one left, I don't mind having extras now.
The pancake mix is a nice surprise, and kind of fun: I'm going to see what that works up into, probably on the weekend.
Otherwise, we've already been decently industrious today and last night (but that's for next week's reporting), and I have some plans: Potato-leek soup with some cheese melted in, which P. really enjoys; another appearance of that orange-glazed beets recipe; maybe a roasted chicken. It is the right kind of weather to roast a chicken: cool and bright and clear.
Otherwise, just given how much greens we have all of a sudden, I suspect it'll be a lot of salads with things. I can already feel the fall coming in, and so. I don't quite mind.
So, that said:
Last (two weeks ago) delivery contained:
Beets
Carrots
Shelling beans
Grape tomatoes
Lettuce
Cucumber
New Zealand spinach
Mushrooms
1/2 dozen duck eggs
Spicy dal crackers
After a week on-and-off under the weather, we felt like making some proper dinner but weren't quite up to photography, so Saturday's dinner and the giant potato salad we made for a Labour Day picnic Sunday evening are lost to time. But the Russian carrot salad I made Monday evening isn't:
Da.
This was a really basic way to use up carrots: grate them up, put in some raisins, walnuts, chopped garlic, and mayo, and, well. Done. It's a side dish, I think, but I ended up eating most of it on bread as a sort of open-sandwich snack object.
Monday night was an experiment; stir-fry with Polish sausage:
It was basically the only protein we had in the house.
It was basically a case of Throw In Everything: Spanish onion, grape tomatoes, the last of the green beans, sweet pepper, some elephant garlic we got in Kensington Market a bit back. Meat Stirfry seems to soak up sauce pretty heavily--the sausage was spicy, but had a soy-sweet thing going too--and while it was interesting, not precisely my favourite outcome.
I also made bread Monday, though--currant challah--which meant Tuesday I got to do this:
It did turn into a sandwich post-picture.
Currant challah, tuna, mayo, pile of New Zealand spinach. Sometimes simple is just what you want.
By Tuesday we'd got back into the swing of things a little better, and made something proper:
Look at all those food groups!
The fish is the same recipe we made a few weeks back: cooked in a pan with a bit of salt and pepper, and all that sour cream/horseradish/dill/lemon sauce on top. We've fallen back on that one a few times, actually: it's pretty resilient, no matter what kind of fish happens to be on sale down the street (this week, it was trout).
The potatoes were all that was left after the Great Potato Salad Incident, with a bit of rosemary, garlic, and pepper; the salad is a salad.
So not a hugely inspiring week, but with that? I feel like we're back up to speed on this thing.
We're left with a surprisingly small suite of leftovers:
Swiss chard
Cauliflower (a smidge, stubbornly waiting for a cheese sauce)
Rosemary
Spanish onion
Beets
Shelling beans
Grape Tomatoes
Lettuce
Cucumber (a third or so)
New Zealand spinach
Mushrooms (bag and a half)
1 duck egg
Spicy dal crackers
This week's takings are somewhat more of the same:
Swiss chard
Red potatoes
Parsley
Grape tomatoes
Leek
Yellow beans
Mixed greens
Mushrooms
12 duck eggs
Whole grain pancake mix
The dozen eggs are a bit of a mixup, but one that I don't mind: since I'm revising as fast as my little hands will go right now, we shelled out the eight bucks to get this delivered, and there was a miscommunication about how many eggs. I'm just going to square it with them next week--either not take my share then or just pay the difference--but since we had one left, I don't mind having extras now.
The pancake mix is a nice surprise, and kind of fun: I'm going to see what that works up into, probably on the weekend.
Otherwise, we've already been decently industrious today and last night (but that's for next week's reporting), and I have some plans: Potato-leek soup with some cheese melted in, which P. really enjoys; another appearance of that orange-glazed beets recipe; maybe a roasted chicken. It is the right kind of weather to roast a chicken: cool and bright and clear.
Otherwise, just given how much greens we have all of a sudden, I suspect it'll be a lot of salads with things. I can already feel the fall coming in, and so. I don't quite mind.
