This week’s share was a bit more modest than last, but still full of amazing fruits and vegetables. We got:
1 bunch beets
1 pound zucchini
1 head red leaf lettuce
1 pound string beans
1 bunch carrots
1 bulb fennel
1 cucumber
2.5 pounds red plums
2 pounds nectarines
The carrots came with the fronds, and I’m looking into ways to use them. They could be good!
I was considering lacto fermenting the fennel with carrots, but I’ve read that fennel can get bitter in the fermentation process, with lots of shrinkage after a few days. Carrot fennel slaw I think is in my future, instead.
The fruit continues to be amazing and I am loving eating the plums with raw yogurt for breakfast. Jenny from Nourished Kitchen recommend poaching yellow plums in honey-vanilla syrup, and I bet these red plums would also be great that way.
We’ll be eating salad with the lettuce as opposed to the no so successful lettuce soup I made last week.
Zucchini will be eaten with tomatoes from my garden!
Summer is amazing.
Carrot tops are real, real good juiced or in green smoothies, if that’s your thing!
I’m really envious reading about your stone fruits in your CSA. I think the small size of the CSA around here keeps my share from being what I want.
Funny you mentioned the unsuccessful lettuce soup. I was going to mention it to you for all your extra lettuce.
Our fruit actually comes in a separate fruit share, so if one has just a vegetable share, the take home is definitely smaller. It’s really great to have access to all this fruit, definitely!
Lettuce soup was ok, and I had high hopes for it – it’s probably good as part of a fresh juice, actually, sort of like kale or spinach might be. If we ever get a juice or a Vitamix, whole fruit/veg smoothies will happen pretty regularly. I’ll have to ask T what he thinks about the idea!
So great to finally meet and have a chat in early August, too!