CSA 2012 Week 10

More corn! It's odd, because corn is the crop that is most often shown when the news wants to demonstrate the drought conditions, but I feel like we are getting a ton of it from this farm. I think we'll finally grill some (with delicious Chorizo Brats from Paulina Meat Market) and then wing it with the rest. I cut out two recipes for corn ice cream that Mary is not at all on board with, but I am dying to try. We'll see if I can sneak that in. A giant bag of yellow and green beans. The bulk of these will go into a salad with dill and sweet onion, the rest will probably just get steamed. Fingerling potatoes do well in potato salads, so we'll likely pull one of those recipes out. Shockingly brightly-colored orange eggplants. We made caponata last week, but we also have a pasta recipe that calls for either zucchini or eggplant, so we'll probably swap this in on that.

So, about that cantaloupe...I guess they really like the weather. While last week's was absurdly small, this is one of the largest I have seen. We're scheduled to get another this coming week, so I am curious to see if they will continue to grow until we need a separate box just to hold the melon. Shallots, garlic, and onion all came bundled together. Nothing has a specific destination yet, other than the bean salad (these are supposedly vidalias and the salad calls for sweet -- serendipity!) More lovely tomatoes. These are going into the aforementioned pasta dish with the eggplant, and getting sliced and eaten with salt. Mmm...tomatoes. A honest to goodness, full size green pepper. We always seem to get a wide variety of sweet and hot peppers from this place, so sometimes it's nice to see a plain ol' bell pepper. Ah, the simple things.