Week 13 CSA
This Week: 1 head Red Lettuce 2 Beefsteak Tomatoes 1 head Savoy Cabbage 1 bunch Carrots 4 Red Pears 2 Ripe Bell Peppers 1
Yearly Archives: 2014
2014
Week 12 CSA Newsletter
Welcome to September! The exciting announcement of the week is that our resident chardmonger and wordsmith is now a father! Clara Elizabeth Ottesen was born Sunday afternoon. So as Kai is somewhat busy this week I’m afraid
Week 11 CSA
Well, we’ll have some fall bluster sneaking into our halcyon summer by the end of the week, but we’ll make the best of it. A decent rain will save us one last round of irrigation if it amounts to anything, and even if it doesn’t (amount to anything) it’ll take the edge off our newly transplanted cabbage seed and winter cauliflower transplants here in the dog days of summer. Looks like the drizzle is set to carry on right into next week and September along with it.
Week 10 CSA
This Week: 1/2 case Beefsteak Tomatoes 1 head Red Butter Lettuce 1 bunch Red Beets 1 bunch Carrots 3 Bartlett Pears 1 pound Green Beans 2
CSA week 9
Thunder! Lightning! Partly cloudy with light showers! We took a break from working on the house late Monday night to watch the lightning and listen to the thunder roll overhead from underneath the eaves of the barn. Over the course of an hour we watched it roll from down near Stanwood all the way up to Padilla Bay before it finally petered. For all their cinematic reputation, thunderstorms really have no sense of dramatic timing. No preludes, no foreshadowing, just long periods of inaction punctuated by brief and arbitrary outbursts, and then you just sit in the theater in the dark until you get cold and go home. But what a theater!
CSA Week 8
Week 8 2 Beefsteak Tomatoes – PF 1 bunch Spinach – CO 1 bunch Red Chard – CO 1 pound Green Beans – CO 1
Week 7 CSA
We are coming in to high summer here, and finally! High 70s during the day and high 50s at night is just where we like it. Now if we could just get an inch of rain every Sunday night between midnight and 5 AM, followed by another week of solid sun that would be just about perfect.
Week 6 CSA
This week: 2 Beefsteak Tomatoes – PF 1 English Cucumber – PF 1 bunch Spinach – CO 1 bunch Parsley – CO 1 head Romaine Lettuce – CO
Swiss Chard and Asparagus Polenta
Here is a slight variation on the sausage and Swiss chard sauteé so common in our house. This recipe calls for a base of creamy polenta underneath the asparagus and Swiss chard available in such abundance this time of year. As noted below, and as recounted so memorably in Bill Buford’s Heat, the polenta only improves from a long, slow cooking time. Also, if you’re going to the trouble of making polenta, you might want to double the batch, and use it as a base for any number of sautées, polenta cakes, or the like through the rest of the week.
Roasted Squash with Sausage and Apple Stuffing
It always seems strange to me to credit such an elemental combination as stuffing squash with meat, apples, and onions, but this recipe from culinate.com does it as gracefully as any I’ve seen. You can’t go wrong with this. Hold the sausage and go 1.5x on the vegetables if you want to take it vegetarian.