The Weekly Share

2 pick-ups have passed since the last post, with a vacation in between!  Here’s what we got and what we’ve done with it:

Share 10

1 box cherry tomatoes

1 oz. cilantro

1 1/2 lbs. potatoes

1 head garlic

2 hot peppers

2 sweet peppers

2 cucumbers

1 box raspberries

4 oz. green beans

10 sprigs basil

2 zucchini

1 yellow squash

1 tomatillo

1 bunch green onions

4 lbs. tomatoes

1-2 eggplant (NOT taken)

I picked this up on Tuesday, then we left for vacation on Friday.  We ate the raspberries.  I cut up the peppers and we ate some of those.  I dried the basil.  I pureed and froze the tomatoes (along with 4 lbs from week 9), and I made cilantro ice cubes, but otherwise, the rest waited until we got back from vacation on Tuesday…just in time to pick up…

Share 11

5 lbs. tomatoes

up to 20 sprigs of basil (I took 6)

1 melon

1 oz. cilantro

6 oz. green beans

2 tomatillos

2 sweet peppers

2 cucumbers

2 jalepeno peppers

2 hot peppers

1 head lettuce

1 head garlic

1 summer squash

1 box cherry tomatoes

I will blanch and freeze most of the green beans, along with a huge haul from our garden.  I plan to make some fresh salsa, too, since I have so many tomatoes and hot peppers.  I made pickles with 5 lbs. of cucumbers from our garden, plus a few from the share.  I have made 9 quarts of pickles so far.  We opened a jar already, even though they are supposed to sit for 8 weeks (1st batch until September 22nd!).  They were very good!

Last night I cooked up a triple batch of tomato sauce, using the frozen, pureed tomatoes from last week and a few fresh tomatoes from this week.  As per something I had seen on the internet, I shredded a zucchini and a yellow squash and added that to the onion, garlic and carrot mixture.  I have to say that my end product does taste a little “squashy,” so maybe I added too much.  What I have is a base sauce that I can add to/adapt for whatever the recipe calls for.  I am making a sausage rigatoni bake tonight.  I will use my sauce and let you know how it turns out.  Look for a post on the tomato sauce recipe tomorrow.

Tags: Share Pick-Up

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