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What's in the CSA Bag on July 8?
Posted on 7/11/2006 in musings

  • 2 lbs Yukon Gold potatoes - not sure how I will use these yet - suggestions? 
  • 1 bunch Swiss Chard which I used in a pasta recipe I found in the News and Record.  It was good but not great.
  • 3/4 lb sweet bell peppers which are gorgeous with their mottled skin.  I've been throwing those in everything I make
  • 1 bunch fennel - We marinated these in a balsamic vinaigrette along with onion, mushrooms and the aforementioned bell pepper and grilled it Saturday night for a feast that also included a tuna steak and some left-over squash casserole
  • 1 lb patty pan squash - I found a recipe that cooks zucchini eggplant parmesan style - should work for squash.
  • 1 lb cucumbers - these will probably be come a spicy sweet cuke salad to eat with the tomatoes I bought from another farmer at the market - they're still a little mealy but I just can't resist tomatoes...

I also picked my first cherry tomato from our garden yesterday.  This has been our first gardening effort beyond a few potted plants and it's gone really well - though to call it an effort is a little misleading.  We put up a little fence to discourage the dogs, planted, mulched and have watered occasionally.  Between the crazy rains the last few weeks and what is apparently a fertile piece of land, everything has just taken care of itself.  The beetles are feasting on the basil but there's so much of it, there's plenty for our dinner and theirs.  We have a couple tiny bell peppers and hot peppers and a village's share of Italian parsley.  We're thinking of uprooting the dog run (which hasn't been dog-proof in years) and making that a much larger garden spot next year.

Meanwhile, my laissez faire gardening attitude has allowed the weeds to obscure the intentional growth - off to handle those...



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potatoes
Posted at 7:12 PM on 7/12/2006 by julz
Wonder if you could make the garlic/dill potatoes like the dish I made for the 4th party? I used new potatoes, but wonder if it would work?
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more cooking from the bag
Posted at 8:20 AM on 7/13/2006 by
Thanks for the suggestion, Julz - those potatoes you made were great! Recipe?

I did use some of the potatoes for a batch of potato salad to serve with roasted squash soft tacos made with some of the patty pan squash. Tonight I'm going to use carrots from last week, the rest of this week's potatoes, green pepper and tomatoes I bought from another farmer to make a veggie and chickpea curry in the crockpot. I'm also thinking of making a couple of loaves of zucchini bread with some yellow squash from our garden - I have a meeting with our business accountant today and after dealing with me, I think she deserves a treat...

Edited by ThoughtForFood on 7/13/2006 at 8:21 AM
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dill potatoes
Posted at 5:48 PM on 7/14/2006 by julz
Ok, I took a page from my Grandmother cookbook on this one, as she always did I didn't use a recipe, but here is what I did. I used new potatoes, cubed them up, put them in a bowl and then added chopped fresh garlic, as much as you like, a sweet onion chopped up. Added salt, fresh ground pepper, and dried dill, get enough dill on the taters to get a nice coverage. I then added some olive oil to coat it all. Tossed it around in the bowl and spread into a baking dish. I tried to only have a layer of pototoes so they would cook evenly. Baked on about 350 or so, till the taters were fork tender!
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