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Farmshare, Week 10
On time, this week! But sadly, probably boring: This has not been a big cooking week. Last week's big question was what I'd do in the kitchen, having been returned to my single-ish ways, and the answer is apparently "Eat leftovers."
Last week's takings were:
Sweet pepper
Red potatoes
Green and yellow beans
Mixed greens
Sweet corn
Rosemary
Spanish onions
Mushrooms
1/2 dozen duck eggs
Spelt crackers
-- and they have been used somewhat unevenly. Saturday night we cooked a mega-ultra-ridicu-meal. And were eating it for days after.
BEHOLD THE PINKNESS OF MY SOUP.
The Jem-coloured soup is the summer borscht I mentioned a bit back, with some slight modifications (as in, no recipe needs that much sour cream, thank you very much, and I am speaking as a charter member of the I Love Sour Cream Society).
So, having probably halved (at least) the sour cream? It was good.
The next day, though? It was delicious.
It also made about 9836720893469243857234 servings, so I just kept ladling it out of my big mixing bowl, and I think I ate it until Tuesday. The potato salad, seen right beside it, was likewise giant, and lasted just as long. Five hard-boiled duck eggs and a whole week's worth of potatoes in that thing, people.
Angels, guys. Choir of angels.
P. also made us banana boats, since he is the best person ever.
I have one pancake recipe, but damn, it's all I need.
In the spirit of returning that favour, and because we had one (1) good peach left, I made pancakes for breakfast Monday morning. These were experimental, and contain said peach, chopped; what blueberries were also left over in the fridge; coconut flakes.
The concept here is really, really good; thing is, it needs more than one (1) peach. I have a new basket of peaches (!!!) that I picked up from the fruit market on my way home tonight, and we're going to re-run this piece of science later this week. Maybe next Monday, when said P. will be returned to me, just more jet-lagged.
I did do some cooking Tuesday as well, when the leftover parade ran out: a loaf of bread with the rosemary from last week's share and mushroom-leafy greens quiche.
There were like six pieces this size.
One of the good things about this summer's experiment is that I finally remembered how quiche is basically the easiest dinner. I have eggs, I have cheese, I have plant matter. Go!
This one has one of the Spanish onions from last week; most of last week's mushrooms; and, in place of the usual spinach, some Swiss chard and the beet greens that were left after the borscht affair. Duck eggs make good quiches: they taste like more, somehow. And they make big quiches, so I basically ate this Tuesday, yesterday, this afternoon for lunch.
Right. That's what I do when I'm living just-me. I still cook, but I eat boringly.
So, needless to say the leftovers pile got bigger in Make Big Things And Eat Them Forever Week:
Pesto Mix - garlic scapes
Swiss chard
Cauliflower (miniscule amount)
Sweet corn (six)
Sweet pepper
Red potatoes
Green and yellow beans
Mixed greens
Rosemary
Spanish onion
Mushrooms (just a bit left here)
1/2 dozen duck eggs
Red fife crackers (thought these were spelt last week; I was wrong)
And this week is:
Beets
Carrots
Shelling beans
Grape tomatoes
Lettuce
Cucumber
New Zealand spinach (which is what I traded for the more corn I was supposed to get, because dammit, corn!)
Mushrooms
1/2 dozen duck eggs
Spicy dal crackers
Wildflower honey
So I've been really good about not doing too much trading this year -- the CSA is usually cool about doing trades if you keep it to one item a week -- but...corn. Already so much of it. I could not take home five more in any good conscience, and salad greens are always welcome in this house.
The honey was a lucky break: They don't always have it, and this is the week we inexplicably ran out of all of ours (I mean, we had three jars in progress: buckwheat, dandelion, and rosemary). It's a half-litre, and should keep us covered for a decent while.
First thoughts: Beets! I don't know when beets became my friend, but beets. Beets! Also, I'm glad the dal crackers are back. I missed those.
And tonight I have gotten takeout, because if I don't I will wake up from my scary protein-lust fugue state in a field somewhere, surrounded by the disembodied remnants of innocent cows.
Um. I'm gonna take care of that protein thing now. Later, guys.
Last week's takings were:
Sweet pepper
Red potatoes
Green and yellow beans
Mixed greens
Sweet corn
Rosemary
Spanish onions
Mushrooms
1/2 dozen duck eggs
Spelt crackers
-- and they have been used somewhat unevenly. Saturday night we cooked a mega-ultra-ridicu-meal. And were eating it for days after.
BEHOLD THE PINKNESS OF MY SOUP.
The Jem-coloured soup is the summer borscht I mentioned a bit back, with some slight modifications (as in, no recipe needs that much sour cream, thank you very much, and I am speaking as a charter member of the I Love Sour Cream Society).
So, having probably halved (at least) the sour cream? It was good.
The next day, though? It was delicious.
It also made about 9836720893469243857234 servings, so I just kept ladling it out of my big mixing bowl, and I think I ate it until Tuesday. The potato salad, seen right beside it, was likewise giant, and lasted just as long. Five hard-boiled duck eggs and a whole week's worth of potatoes in that thing, people.
Angels, guys. Choir of angels.
P. also made us banana boats, since he is the best person ever.
I have one pancake recipe, but damn, it's all I need.
In the spirit of returning that favour, and because we had one (1) good peach left, I made pancakes for breakfast Monday morning. These were experimental, and contain said peach, chopped; what blueberries were also left over in the fridge; coconut flakes.
The concept here is really, really good; thing is, it needs more than one (1) peach. I have a new basket of peaches (!!!) that I picked up from the fruit market on my way home tonight, and we're going to re-run this piece of science later this week. Maybe next Monday, when said P. will be returned to me, just more jet-lagged.
I did do some cooking Tuesday as well, when the leftover parade ran out: a loaf of bread with the rosemary from last week's share and mushroom-leafy greens quiche.
There were like six pieces this size.
One of the good things about this summer's experiment is that I finally remembered how quiche is basically the easiest dinner. I have eggs, I have cheese, I have plant matter. Go!
This one has one of the Spanish onions from last week; most of last week's mushrooms; and, in place of the usual spinach, some Swiss chard and the beet greens that were left after the borscht affair. Duck eggs make good quiches: they taste like more, somehow. And they make big quiches, so I basically ate this Tuesday, yesterday, this afternoon for lunch.
Right. That's what I do when I'm living just-me. I still cook, but I eat boringly.
So, needless to say the leftovers pile got bigger in Make Big Things And Eat Them Forever Week:
Pesto Mix - garlic scapes
Swiss chard
Cauliflower (miniscule amount)
Sweet corn (six)
Sweet pepper
Red potatoes
Green and yellow beans
Mixed greens
Rosemary
Spanish onion
Mushrooms (just a bit left here)
1/2 dozen duck eggs
Red fife crackers (thought these were spelt last week; I was wrong)
And this week is:
Beets
Carrots
Shelling beans
Grape tomatoes
Lettuce
Cucumber
New Zealand spinach (which is what I traded for the more corn I was supposed to get, because dammit, corn!)
Mushrooms
1/2 dozen duck eggs
Spicy dal crackers
Wildflower honey
So I've been really good about not doing too much trading this year -- the CSA is usually cool about doing trades if you keep it to one item a week -- but...corn. Already so much of it. I could not take home five more in any good conscience, and salad greens are always welcome in this house.
The honey was a lucky break: They don't always have it, and this is the week we inexplicably ran out of all of ours (I mean, we had three jars in progress: buckwheat, dandelion, and rosemary). It's a half-litre, and should keep us covered for a decent while.
First thoughts: Beets! I don't know when beets became my friend, but beets. Beets! Also, I'm glad the dal crackers are back. I missed those.
And tonight I have gotten takeout, because if I don't I will wake up from my scary protein-lust fugue state in a field somewhere, surrounded by the disembodied remnants of innocent cows.
Um. I'm gonna take care of that protein thing now. Later, guys.