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My Farm Share Week 4

Tracy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:11:02 +0000

Good Morning! It’s Farm Share Wednesday! Today’s delivery has a lot of really nice variety including some familiar standards. This week we will be working with red leaf lettuce, scallions, garlic scapes, a small white cabbage, mixed baby greens, baby red onions, baby carrots and Kirby cucumbers.

Preliminarily, I’m thinking corned beef and cabbage (did I mention I’m part Irish??), pickles, carrot puree and garlic scape-potato soup. Check back next Tuesday to see what becomes of these lovely vegetables…

Here are the photos:

My Farm Share Week 2

Tracy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:55:01 +0000

Good Morning, Sunshine! My Farm Share is here! This week’s Farm Share came bright and early and this time, we were prepared. We received a box of Napa cabbage, scallions, red Russian kale, green leaf lettuce, a bunch of basil, a bag of mixed baby greens and a bunch of Italian parsley. I see salads in my future…

Here are some photos:

Week 1 of My Farm Share Comes to an End

Tracy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:05:19 +0000

It’s been a busy week getting all of the Farm Share vegetables eaten in time for the next delivery tomorrow morning. I had a lot of fun and wanted to take a moment to tell you what I did with all of them.

The red Russian kale was sauteed in olive oil and butter (I love butter!) with some of the garlic scapes. The Napa cabbage served double duty as it was so large… The first dish was a cold salad of thinly sliced Napa cabbage, radishes and garlic scapes simply dressed with rice wine vinegar, sesame oil, salt and black pepper. The second dish was a saute of Napa cabbage and onions in olive oil and butter (!), seasoned with salt and black pepper. The garlic scapes found their way into everything I could manage and I still have 5 scapes left! The mixed greens were used as a salad with radishes and garlic scapes dressed with homemade honey-mustard dressing. The bok choy was steamed and dressed with soy sauce, rice wine vinegar and sesame oil. The romaine lettuce was used for chicken (for my husband) and shrimp (for me) Caesar salads.

We had a lot of fun working with these vegetables and felt good about helping out our local farmers. Stay tuned to see what we receive tomorrow morning!

My First Farm Share Is Here!

Tracy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:23:03 +0000

Yay!!! I have so eagerly anticipated the beginning of my farm shares that it was all I could do to keep from blogging about its impending arrival. But, it is finally here. Actually, it’s been here since 6:30 this morning! Our doorman phone rang, waking us up from a very nice slumber, and told us we had a delivery. Yay!!! My Farm Share is here!!!

Here are some photos of our goodies…

Clock-wise from top center: An unknown (to me) hearty green, napa cabbage, garlic scapes, radishes, baby greens, bok choy and romaine lettuce.

What is this (see photo below)??? The stalk is very hearty but the leaves are quite tender. If the stalk is edible, it would probably need to be braised but the leaves are so tender, it seems that they can be simply sauteed. Please leave a comment if you know what this is. Also, any suggestions on how to use the bunch would be much appreciated.

My Farm Share

Tracy — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:46:08 +0000

My husband and I recently signed up to participate in a program called Farm Share. It is a program in which individuals purchase a “share” in a farm and a benefit of this membership is a weekly delivery of the farm’s bounty (choose from fruits, veggies or both). We are very excited about this program and can’t wait for our veggies to start arriving in mid-June.

I am a huge advocate of farm-fresh, seasonal, local, organic foods and I have great respect for family farmers. The idea of not knowing exactly what will be coming for me each week is quite exciting as well. It reminds me of when I was in culinary school and the chef-instructor would announce to the class that “today is Market Basket Day” and we would have free reign of any and all ingredients in the kitchen and pantry and we were graded on our creativity and use of product.

We still have about 3 weeks to go but I will be sure to report on what I receive and how I utilize it. Be sure to come back and see what’s cooking!