Farm Day, July 29, 2009

Well. It's been a week since we've been ill. We're recovered, I think. And what better way to celebrate a new bill of health than to get an amazing harvest from the CSA? And to turn it into yummy food and eat it all? Oh, the large bag of peaches isn't pictured here, nor are the collard greens. Sometimes, we start eating before we get to look at all of it. Green beans pictured below.

I knew I was going to get MANY more green beans next week, so I put this week's in freezer bags (after washing, trimming, yada, yada, yada) and went ahead and ate our favorites. We like green beans, but next week it will be the biggest crop, so we'll eat them then.

I also diced up some of the carrots, beets, onions, green beans, and zucchini and put them in freezer bags for emergency meals. This combo makes a great minestrone...just toss the frozen veggies in beef broth, add a can of kidney beans and either a bag of frozen diced tomatoes (I'll be making those in a week or so...) or a can of them. Simmer. Throw some bread together, and viola! Dinner is served!

We had a hitchhiking caterpillar show up on our beets this morning. I found him in the bowl of greens. The kids want to see him turn into a butterfly (c'mon, we all know it's a MOTH), so he's in a jar now, with those beet greens and a few air holes. We'll see....