Weekend fare

Despite being slightly disappointed with the stretch of our $30 share, we still have:

• A head of garlic from Eastern Carolina Organics, NC
• An ample avocado from Homestead, FL
• A box of organic grape tomatoes from Florida
• A bag of wheat berries from Four Star Farm in Northfield, MA
• Three Yukon potatoes from Full Bloom Farm in Whately, MA
• Four parsnips from Deep Root, VT (where we used to get a lot of produce at the Middlebury Co-op!)
• One delicata squash from Czajkowski in Hadley, MA
• One low spray/IPM apples from Bashista Fruit Farm in Southampton, MA

left over from our share last Wednesday. We didn't cook as much of it as we expected to for New Year's and the weekend, and it's a good thing that a lot of it will keep for a while (i.e. potatoes, squash, parsnips, garlic, wheat berries). We dutifully brought along our kale and lettuce for New Year's at our friend's house in New York, but they were not consumed at the alarming rate we had anticipated. And, the refrigerator at my friend's house was ridiculously cold and they semi-froze and lost a lot of their crunch. Bummer.

We still managed to salvage the kale in our Japanese nabe soup last night and I brought the remaining lettuce to work for lunch today, determined to suck it up and eat my flimsy lettuce like a real woman. We ended up buying a lot of extra produce for nabe last night (daikon, napa cabbage, scallions, broccoli, onion, mushrooms) so we'll have to make a conscious effort not to neglect our farm share veggies. The delicata squash and remaining apple will be eaten, no problem, I'm sure. I'm not worried about potatoes, wheat berries, and parsnips. They'll survive. I anticipate a "biggie beanie blowout" to come later this week to incorporate said garlic, tomatoes, and avocado.