CSA delivery 10/22/2008
This week's box:
sorrel
sage
basil
tomatoes
peppers (again!)
cardoon!
Mary Jo, your veggies are in the 2nd floor fridge. Julia, I left yours on your desk and Ryan promised to keep an eye on them for you ;)
Sorrel is great in potato soup or in omelets. It's sort of a lemony spinach, but not really.
Cardoon was popular back in the Victorian age, there are a lot of recipes that say to saute or steam the stems and then bake with cheese. ONLY the stems. DISCARD THE LEAVES. I don't think they're edible. I just left the on to show you how it grows. . . and it can grow up to 6 feet tall. Very striking, and beautiful, in the garden.
I left the farm late yesterday so I don't know how bad the frost was. I was at Green City Market today and a few of the farmers who passed through Bridgman (probably 3am) said that the car dealership in town could've scraped the ice off their windows. Everything was white. Sigh. That's it for most stuff. I did try some frost blankets over the eggplants, cardoon, kale, and Swiss chard. . . and 100 feet of peppers. I won't see until Saturday how well it worked, or for how much longer. WGN is now predicting light snow on Sunday/Monday. I'm not looking forward to standing outside at market all day Sunday.
I do have preserves in the works. Plum butter, peach butter, peach/plum/ginger butter, quince marmalade, pickled peppers with garlic, pepper/eggplant relish, pickled daikon radishes . . . and whatever else I can come up with in the next week! I may try a tomato sauce. . .
I'll keep in touch with garden/preserves updates.