Showing posts with label broccoli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label broccoli. Show all posts
Sunday, June 12, 2016
2016 week 6
New this week!
Cauliflower- always good roasted, but my new favorite way to eat cauliflower is riced. Pulse the cauliflower in your food processor or grate with a box grater. Here is a recipe for "10 Minute Cauliflower Rice"
Carrots- Beautiful root crop enjoy raw or cooked
Basil- The smell of summer.
Here is a perfect recipe to make this week. Carrot Top Pesto!
Labels:
basil,
broccoli,
carrots,
cauliflower,
garlic scape,
kale,
pickle,
zucchini
Sunday, May 29, 2016
2016 Week 4
New this week:
Kohlrabi - I know this is a weird one. But trust me, it is good and easy to use.
--Here is a link to make the famous Kohlrabi Ham Bake
--Here is a link to a post I wrote on Kohlrabi
Kohlrabi - I know this is a weird one. But trust me, it is good and easy to use.
--Here is a link to make the famous Kohlrabi Ham Bake
--Here is a link to a post I wrote on Kohlrabi
Red Romaine - Use it the same as green romaine. It is a little more delicate, but so very beautiful.
Broccoli - Growing broccoli in the spring is difficult.We are giving it our best shot.
Garlic Scapes - We are so excited to have garlic scapes in the share this week from our garlic field. This is our first year growing garlic and we're excited for the potential harvest, which begins with scapes. Garlic scapes are the tender stem found on a garlic plant. Use your garlic scapes raw in salads and they will have a hot peppery flavor. Cooked garlic scapes will have a mellow, sweeter flavor. Here is a link to a garlic scape salad dressing.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
2013 week 6
The legendary Case 730 Comfort King. When the going gets tough the tough get the 730. When other tractors get stuck in the mud, everyone around here know to go get the 730. In the mud this tractor is a BEAST. Rated at 56 horsepower and weighing in at 7000lbs the 730 can out-work larger tractors.
Once, our John Deere 2840 (80hp, 9000lbs) got stuck while pulling a fertilizer spreader. The 730 came to the rescue. Greg hooked up the chain and started pulling before Pop-pop had a chance to put the John Deere in gear. The 730 pulled out the John Deere AND the spreader while the John Deere was in neutral!
Love this tractor!
We still have to keep going through all this rain. The turnips and pickles still need to be harvested and packed every single day. We gear up and get the work done.
Other jobs around the farm just don't get done when it is raining: pruning, staking, tying.
But we are still able to stay busy. The tunnel tomatoes are pruned and clipped whilst the rain. The packing line has been thoroughly scrubbed and is in the process of getting pre-season maintenance. Shop projects like the trash belts are coming along. There is always work to be done on a farm.
Romaine- I know it has been in the share for 6 weeks. This weather has been good for the lettuce not too hot.
Rainbow Carrots- Aren't they just so pretty! Just use them like regular carrots. Yum!
Beets- I love roasted beets. Here is my favorite recipe.
Broccoli/Cauliflower- I was hoping to have enough of both so everyone got 2 heads of both, but remember back in early spring we had a spell of nice warm weather and then it snowed. Well, we had planted the broccoli and cauliflower right before the snow. The harsh weather killed about half the crop. :( Anyway we are happy we have some to harvest.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
CSA Share 2012: week 4
What a week we have had! The constant threat of thunderstorms, that never amounted to anything, followed by high heat and humidity! Whew! But it was great weather if you were hanging by the pool, ocean, or lake! The eggplants are loving this heat wave too! Sadly, the strawberries despise this heat and humidity. The berries are limping along so you CSA members can come U-pick on Saturday.
Even though the strawberries are out of the picture
Here are 4 reasons why I am SUPER DUPER EXCITED about this weeks share.
#1 Broccoli and Cauliflower-- We planted broccoli in the csa field 2 years ago, and got nothing, nada, zilch. This spring I got the urge to try growing these cruciferous veggies again. I tried to be optimistic, but I really was anticipating another flop. Just look at those beauties! Yummy, yummy!
#2 Spinach-- Spinach is another on of those things that we have been trying to grow with little success for the past few years. Last years spinach I got from a neighbor. This year I am proud to announce that this was grown on our farm right next to the turnips. We leads me to #3
#3 Turnips-- I love that part of the whole CSA experience is trying new things. Turnips fall in the "new things" category for many of our members. I have this Turnip souffle recipe that will knock your socks off. Sidenote*** You can eat the turnip greens too! These are the most beautiful turnip greens I have seen in a while!
#4 Pickle Cucs-- I love pickles I eat them right out of the field and so does Auggie Dog
Oh yeah, the asparagus and kholrabi is pretty cool too!
Even though the strawberries are out of the picture
Here are 4 reasons why I am SUPER DUPER EXCITED about this weeks share.
#1 Broccoli and Cauliflower-- We planted broccoli in the csa field 2 years ago, and got nothing, nada, zilch. This spring I got the urge to try growing these cruciferous veggies again. I tried to be optimistic, but I really was anticipating another flop. Just look at those beauties! Yummy, yummy!
#2 Spinach-- Spinach is another on of those things that we have been trying to grow with little success for the past few years. Last years spinach I got from a neighbor. This year I am proud to announce that this was grown on our farm right next to the turnips. We leads me to #3
#3 Turnips-- I love that part of the whole CSA experience is trying new things. Turnips fall in the "new things" category for many of our members. I have this Turnip souffle recipe that will knock your socks off. Sidenote*** You can eat the turnip greens too! These are the most beautiful turnip greens I have seen in a while!
#4 Pickle Cucs-- I love pickles I eat them right out of the field and so does Auggie Dog
Oh yeah, the asparagus and kholrabi is pretty cool too!
Labels:
asparagus,
broccoli,
cauliflower,
csa,
farm,
kholrabi,
pickles,
spinach,
turnip greens,
turnips
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