Wayward Seed CSA 8/26/10

This was another great week. In my single fruit and vegetable share, I got:

3 ears of corn
Bunch of onions
Bunch of sweet potatoes
Bunch of white carrots
Half a gorgeous-looking watermelon
Several apples
Bag of plums
Bag of peaches

I need to get cooking and eating!

Corn Sauté

The corn from Wayward Seed has been truly awesome. SO good. I made a corn sauté from this month's Bon Appetit with some of it, and it turned out great. D really loved it, so I've been making it a lot. One great thing is that it's really versatile - you can basically put any herbs in it that you want. Last time I didn't feel like traipsing out to the garden in the dark, so I used mostly dried, and it still turned out great.

Summer Corn Sauté with Tons of Herbs

I cut down on the butter, added some powdered cumin and omitted the tarragon. I used dried dill instead of fresh.

YUM!

Wayward Seed CSA 8/19/10

This week, for my one person fruit and vegetable share, I got:
-several (4?) ears of corn
-a huge zucchini that I'm told is awesome
-several heirloom tomatoes
-a bunch of carrots
-a big bag of peaches
-a big bag of plums

They also gave me an extra smaller bag of peaches because they said they thought the veggie share was light this week.

Donnie's 2 person vegetable shares was the day before, and he also got bell peppers and a cantaloupe.

I did finally cut up and eat last week's cantaloupe and it was so good! I'm even sadder I let the others go to waste. Oh well. I'll make sure it doesn't happen again!

Wayward Seed CSA 8/12/10

My one-person fruit and vegetable share included:

4 ears of corn
2 heirloom tomatoes
a big cantaloupe
a bunch of white carrots
a bag of peaches
a box of blackberries

I also know that yesterday's 2-person share included more corn, zucchini and squash, and adorable tiny eggplants.

Cooked fruit!

Anyone who's ever eaten a lot with me knows I am not a fan of cooked fruit. It's not so much the fruit, it's the warm mushiness with all of those sweet spices that I don't like. But last weekend, we had some people over for dinner, so I decided to make a cooked fruit dessert because it sounded easy. And lo and behold, I LIKED it! Granted, I barely put any gross spices in it and I let my piece cool down, but still.

Peach and Blackberry Crisp

I didn't make a whole recipe. I used about 6 small peaches (which I think was still under 1.5 lbs!) and about half a pint of blackberries (so maybe a scant cup?). I couldn't find nutmeg so I used my "apple pie spice mix" which has cinnamon, nutmeg, and other spices. And I left out the nuts. Other than used bottled lemon juice instead of fresh squeezed, I followed the rest of the directions. Super easy and actually quite delicious. The fruit stayed fairly firm (which I preferred) and the flavors were so good. I baked it in a glass pan that was maybe 11x7 and I think we only had one small corner of it left, with 4 of us eating. Yum!

Wayward Seed CSA 8/5/10

Another great one!

My one-person share had:
-a big bag of peaches
-a container of blackberries
-3 ears of corn (last week's were SO good!!!)
-several onions
-a squash/zucchini
-a bag of cherry tomatoes