The tomatoes are nice, and the potatoes are great, but the real star this week is the fruit in your basket. The pears are from Judi’s farm, and the peaches are from Beechwood Farms, a new vendor at our Carlisle market. We try to grow all of our own produce, but in some [...]
We haven’t abandoned the blog – this is just the end of the most hectic time of the summer. At Katie’s farm on Stoney Creek, the main source of income is selling tall bearded iris, mostly through a website. Iris are dug, cleaned, tagged, and prepared for shipping during a three week window when they’re [...]
This is an odd week for Cool Beans. We’ll refer to it as the ’smorgasbord’ week. For various reasons, evenly split between reflecting incompetence on our part and the hideous weather, we were only able to harvest bits and pieces of any one thing. If you know another Bean, odds are your basket isn’t quite [...]
It’s sweet corn week! It’s a heavy basket this week, because you have fresh corn, Yukon Gold potatoes, carrots, and two kinds of cucumbers. Poona Kheera is an Indian cucumber, yellow-brown and very sweet. General Lee is a standard slicer. You have the third kind of onion we’re growing this year (we’ve been thinning the [...]
Here’s a link to the recipe Judi uses for stuffed zucchini.
Stuffed Zucchini Recipe from Allrecipes.com
If you’d prefer a vegetarian version, make a filling with cooked rice and sauteed veg – top with cheese if you wish – and proceed as above. You want to be careful slicing the uncooked zucchini, and you want the [...]
Judi makes fun of me when I do my math-nerd thing, but…….we’re almost 1/3 done with this first season! Seems impossible. (And yes, we will be doing this next year, and accepting more members, and enlarging our planting list!)
This week: a big green zucchini (Judi will be posting a recipe for stuffed zucchini this evening, [...]
Diane suggested using it for a salad with a dressing made with yogurt and apples – you’re looking for something sweet to balance the bitterness of the frisee (frilly endive, as opposed to Belgian endive.) One of the Beans who met me at the Thursday pickup – I’m sorry I’ve forgotten who suggested this – [...]
If you’re a Friday Bean who picks up in Camp Hill or at Yeehaw Farm, your fingerling potatoes were not in the box. The good news is that they’ll be just as good next week – if I had to mess up, I’m sure glad it was the potatoes and not something perishable. In fact, [...]
The really frilly green stuff is endive – it’s slightly bitter (on purpose!) and you might want to hold onto it until I can post a few special recipes for it. You have Chinese cabbage (rubber-banded and trimmed), a very sweet onion or two, depending on your share size, some incredibly sweet carrots, blueberries, two [...]
Continue reading about quick list for this week, details later
I’ve had a chance to talk to a few Beans this week and I’ve learned that some of our members are not too familiar with all of the vegetables in our baskets – willing to try them, just not sure how to proceed!
So perhaps I’ve been assuming too much previous familiarity, and in trying not [...]