Dear John,
Beach day. Swimming pool. Garden time. Church. Faire.
Pesto. Fig jam. Preserved eggplant.
It was an exhausting weekend. It was wonderful.
Today’s Box
- Nectarines
- Red Seedless Watermelon
- Yellow Peaches
- Mixed Carmen Italian Peppers
- Mixed Heirloom Tomatoes
- Orange Carrots
- Italian Eggplant
- Yellow Straightneck Squash
Things in the fridge
- Sunchokes
- Roma tomatoes
- Cabbage: Red Cabbage, Green Cabbage,
- Nectarines, Plums, Pears
In the Garden
- Basil by the bundle
- Parsley
- Mitsuba yanked from the ground because I saw the flowers and thought weed before I remembered it was intentional planting. Ooops
- Handful of cherry tomatoes and ground cherries
- Figs
- Few peppers that I don’t remember anything about
- One eggplant
- One radish
- One tomatillo
- Collards
- Sunflower! Dahlia! Basil Flowers! Zinnias! Feverfew! Okay, some of those are from the yard. Pretties!
Open Preserves
- One day we might organize the cabinet.
- Another day we might organize the fridge.
- Then we might know.
- Fig jam
Pantry Beans
- Split Red Lentil
- Good Mother Stallard
- Rio Zape
- And more tucked on other shelves…
Can we cook this week? Maybe!
- Ratatouille! It’s happening! The temperature is cooler and we can turn on the oven for three hours. If we can find a day where chopping and then stirring every so often over three hours is reasonable. Plus side, ideally it will use a surplus of veggies, be yummy, and freeze well. I’m hearing the siren call of a polenta/grits base.
- Bacon, Basil, and Tomato sandwiches using the basil leaves that are as large as lettuce leaves. Small lettuce leaves, but still.
- While the oven can be on, I want to make pizza too. Pesto pizza? Maybe. Tomato sauce pizza? Not opposed.
- Also while the oven is on, roast eggplant and make a baba ganoush. Or the eggplant dip from the Indian cookbook.
- I keep looking at the parsley vase and thinking of soba eggplant noodles topped with parsley. Or tabbouleh made with fonio.
- The plums that haven’t been eaten should just go on the dehydrator. She says as if the processing step is easier. (It is not.)
- More curdito. It’s been delicious on tacos and quesadillas and crackers. And hey, we just got carrots and we still have cabbage.
Love,
Sarah
PS Freeze more pesto.
Planning Inside The Box 