Let's just say that a full farm share is a lot for a family of 4, even when there is canning involved.
Yesterday the share was picked up and our mason dropped off more goodies from his garden. I came home from work around 9:30 last night to find a crazy amount of zucchini and other squashes, several pounds of cucumbers, a bulb of fennel, a lot of chard, some kale, a head of romaine lettuce, turnips, onions, snow and snap peas, an eggplant, a bunch of peppers, potatoes, and celery. Obviously it was too late to do much last night so I started in pretty early this morning.
First, I made 4 loaves of chocolate zucchini bread. I ran out of the sour cream the recipe calls for so I substituted chocolate yogurt. It probably wasn't acidic enough but the bread still rose and they taste really good.
Next I sliced the cucumbers and onions and mixed them with pickling salt. Tomorrow, after work, I will make a batch of Curry Pickle Slices - something I haven't tried before. These are regular cukes, not pickling cukes but, considering they aren't waxed and are still relatively small, I think they will do just fine.
For dinner we ate the potatoes and some of the turnips baked in the oven with olive oil and parmesan cheese. We also had all the snow and snap peas sautéed in a little oil. And a big salad which finished off the Hakurei turnips and radishes.
I have a lot of squash left, plus the eggplant, peppers, kale, celery, lettuce, chard, and the fennel. I don't really know what to do with fennel. Even the rabbit isn't really a fan.
Yesterday the share was picked up and our mason dropped off more goodies from his garden. I came home from work around 9:30 last night to find a crazy amount of zucchini and other squashes, several pounds of cucumbers, a bulb of fennel, a lot of chard, some kale, a head of romaine lettuce, turnips, onions, snow and snap peas, an eggplant, a bunch of peppers, potatoes, and celery. Obviously it was too late to do much last night so I started in pretty early this morning.
First, I made 4 loaves of chocolate zucchini bread. I ran out of the sour cream the recipe calls for so I substituted chocolate yogurt. It probably wasn't acidic enough but the bread still rose and they taste really good.
Next I sliced the cucumbers and onions and mixed them with pickling salt. Tomorrow, after work, I will make a batch of Curry Pickle Slices - something I haven't tried before. These are regular cukes, not pickling cukes but, considering they aren't waxed and are still relatively small, I think they will do just fine.
For dinner we ate the potatoes and some of the turnips baked in the oven with olive oil and parmesan cheese. We also had all the snow and snap peas sautéed in a little oil. And a big salad which finished off the Hakurei turnips and radishes.
I have a lot of squash left, plus the eggplant, peppers, kale, celery, lettuce, chard, and the fennel. I don't really know what to do with fennel. Even the rabbit isn't really a fan.
I'll take the fennel - Ina Garten has recipes for it!
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