Geauga Family Farms CSA–week 20–the final week

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Oct 252011
 

Today was our last visit to Whole Foods to pick up our 2011 summer CSA.  Just about every week, we were greeted by Andrew.  He usually works in the kitchen in the morning, but somehow ended up with the Tuesday afternoon CSA gig most of the summer.  He was super nice to everyone, especially Nick and Sally.

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The photos are dark again this week.  Maybe I can figure out some evening lighting for next year.  Here’s the group shot for this week.

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Let’s take a closer look:

Green onions, green beans

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Red Russian Kale, bell peppers

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Butternut squash, lettuce

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Radishes, apples

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Sweet potatoes, tomatoes

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Garlic

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We’ve been going through a ton of apples this year.  Between morning oats, snacks and applesauce, I can’t keep them in the house.  We went picking for the last time this year, but I was still glad to see apples in our pick up today.

I still have some cabbage in our fridge.  I’ll be making another batch of unstuffed cabbage in the crockpot Thursday.  It will use the garlic, tomatoes, bell peppers, and green onion.  I love having a recipe that uses many CSA ingredients and is also flexible.

My kids have been asking for sweet potatoes the last couple of days.  I usually slice them, season them and bake them.  They disappear quickly with a bit of ketchup for dipping.

Lettuce and some radishes will go in lunch salads.  The rest of the radishes will go into turnip soup.  The green beans make an easy side dish.

I’m not quite sure about the squash yet.  I’m thinking about making some butternut squash soup, but I’m not sure of the timing since I need to make turnip soup first.

It’s supposed to get cold this week.  I’m glad we have some hearty items that go well with ovens and soup.  It’s been a fun season.  I’m already excited about the winter CSA.

Geauga Family Farms CSA–week 19

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Oct 182011
 

Today, we picked up week 19 of our Geauga Family Farms CSA.  It’s hard to believe that next week is the last week.  This was our worst pick up ever.  It really had nothing to do with the CSA.  Sally decided to run from the café area all the way to the parking lot without any regard to cars or traffic.  There weren’t cars and she’s ok and I’m ok, but it was rough.  Nick tried to grab her hood twice.  It slowed her down enough for me to catch up with her.  There was another adult near her, so I think she would have intervened if necessary.  But, you never know!  Sally’s now in the cart or holding my hand at all times.  Usually, we do that in the parking lot and approaching parking lots, but we never needed to do it leaving the café the other weeks.

Some of the photos are dark this week.  I blame it on the time of year.  It’s so dark early right now that we don’t have natural light.  Anyway, we picked up lots of yummy looking produce, so let’s take a look:

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Tomatoes, lettuce

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Beets and either beets or radishes.  I don’t think I’ll know about the ones on the right until we taste them or cook them.  I have gotten them mixed up in the past.  I thought they were beets until I dug further in the boxes and found the beets on the left.  Hmmmmmm….

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Bell peppers, butternut squash

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Bok choy, apples

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Onions, garlic

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Green beans, spinach

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By the end of the season, I really feel like I have the hang of this.  The tomatoes will go into a cabbage dish.  We’re still working on 2 heads that we got from our other CSA last week.  We’ll also use some onion, bell pepper and garlic in that dish.

The green beans have been fantastic lately.  They will be a plain side dish.  I’ve been using the spinach in pasta dishes.  It adds flavor and color.

The lettuce and possibly bok choy will go in salads.  Otherwise, I’ll make a stir fry with the bok choy.  We were actually out of apples, so these will go in my coleslaw and my oatmeal.

Winter squash will get baked and eaten for lunch a couple of days.

That leaves the beets and radishes or beets as the case may be.  My favorite recipe for beets is to make Harvard beets.  I’ve been using radishes in salads or pickling them.  These will probably go in salad.

Geauga Family Farms CSA–week 18

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Oct 112011
 

Today, we picked up week 18 of our Geauga Family Farms CSA.  That means there are 2 weeks left.  Everyone is a bit off since the season started late due to all of the early rain.  Andrew was back and seemed surprised that everyone missed him.

Here’s a group shot of what we received today.

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Garlic, tomatoes

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Apples, green beans

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Turnips (mostly greens), lettuce

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Broccoli, green pepper

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Parsley, butternut squash

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Sweet potatoes

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This will be a very easy week for us to use up our items.  My husband like tabouli, so we will be making a batch of that using mint from our garden along with the parsley and tomatoes from today’s pick up.

The sweet potatoes will combine with a couple we have left from previous weeks for a batch of baked sweet potato slices.  We like to peel and slice the potato, drizzle with olive oil and use Ozark seasoning and cinnamon.  Nick and Sally like to eat them with ketchup.

We already ate the broccoli for dinner tonight.  The green beans will be an easy side dish for lunch tomorrow or dinner on Thursday.  I plan to make soup with the turnips and greens along with some potatoes and kohlrabi that we already have on hand.  We’ve accumulated some garlic lately and I think I’m going to chop and freeze it.  The apples have been going great in my oatmeal.

I haven’t decided on a specific dish for the butternut squash.  But it’s second only to acorn in my book, so we’ll have no problem eating it.

I love this time of year.  The hearty dishes make for excellent comfort food.

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