Belated Boxing Day, April 21

Dear John,

I’m going to get cooking rather than write a forward this week. We didn’t take a photo when the Community Produce box arrived on Tuesday. We have eaten cantaloupe, roasted seeds, stewed plums and put them on top of Dutch babies, made a cabbage curry, and I think eaten some other produce.

CSA Box

  • Skipped

Community Produce still in the fridge six days later

  • Collards
  • Cabbage
  • Potato
  • Zucchini

Other Lingering Produce

  • Sunchoke
  • Spring onions
  • Cabbage

Freezer Items in Focus

  • Corn stock
  • Fennel pesto
  • Beet puree
  • Roasted jalapeños
  • Hot peppers
  • Frozen beans
  • Summer stock bag

Garden

  • Sunchokes harvested
  • Dahlia tubers divided which means some are good for baking?

Open Preserves

  • Fridge still organized!
  • Fridge still not inventoried!
  • Fig jam
  • Preserved eggplant
  • Pickled banana peppers
  • Pickled fennel
  • Pickled peach
  • Curdito
  • Cran-kin-kraut
  • Fermented green cherry tomatoes

Pantry Beans

  • Yellow Split Pea
  • Split Red Lentil
  • Black Caviar Lentil
  • Garbanzo Bean
  • Buckeye Bean
  • Pinto Bean
  • Christmas Lima
  • California Corona
  • Large White Lima
  • Midnight Black Bean
  • Rojo De Suelo
  • And maybe one more on the shelf?

Meals to get us through the next few days

  • Cook up the greens and mix up some rice and the last of the peas for crispy hoppin john. (Actually, going to go get rice cooking while I write this.)
  • Buy some mozz, pull pesto from the freezer, and make the braised chickpeas and zucchini.
  • Repeat some of the recent cabbage recipes? The romanesco sauce was delicious. As was the curry.
  • I want to do the crispy potatoes but they really benefit from being eaten hot and I’m not sure when we cook them. So to consider. Honestly, also considering boiling up the summer stock bag, and make a corn and potato chowder. Potentially with buckeye beans mixed in? Think about it!

Love,

Sarah

Boxing Day, June 17

Hi John,

So trying to pack for a camping trip and buying a house and meal planning all at once was not a success. We did not forget anything necessary for the camping trip! We got the offer in on the house! We got a contract on the house. We got earnest money deposited for the house. We did the home inspection. We walked on our contract for the house. Meals happened.

In This Last Week’s Box

  • Cherry plums
  • Yellow Peaches
  • Broccoli
  • Red Beets with Greens
  • Green Zucchini
  • English Peas
  • Fava Beans
  • Rainbow Chard
  • Red Kale
  • Sweet Basil

Still in the Fridge

  • Herbs: Parsley, Fennel, Green Onions
  • Greens: Spinach, Lettuce
  • Radish, Red and French Breakfast
  • Baby Hakurei Turnips
  • Kohlrabi
  • Parsnips
  • Sunchokes

What We Ate

  • Cherry pie using four types of foraged sweet cherries and a combination of multiple recipes
  • Campfire pocket stew with carrot and parsnip and potato and cherry tomatoes. Yours was fine. Mine got burnt.
  • Quinoa salad with turnip and raw zucchini and carrot and creamy ginger dressing
  • Pizza with pesto and mozz and lemon slices and broccoli and zucchini and feta
  • Tuna melt zucchini bake from Six Seasons
  • Peas Pasta Carbonara from Six Seasons. The gluten free pasta didn’t result in a sauce so much as a broth, but still good.

I’ll try to be back tomorrow with actual plans in advance.

~s