Week 5; July 7, 2022
What’s in the box?
zucchini
leaf lettuce
salad mix
green onions
salad turnips (large and medium)
cucumbers
green top carrots
red kale
garlic scapes
broccoli (large only)
Notes on the box.
Be sure to remove the tops from your carrots and your salad turnips for storage. The tops of the turnips are nice sauteed or can be chopped and added to salad.
Lettuce, Kale, and greens will keep best in a plastic bag in the fridge. Everything else should do fine in the crisper in your fridge.
Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese.
This week we have our aged English style cheddar and fresh cheese curds. Cheese curds are part of the cheddar making process. The curds can be bagged up and enjoyed fresh, or pressed into a wheel or block of cheddar. The curds are difficult to get to knit back together, so some flaws near the rind are normal. There’s even a little wild blue that got in near some of the rinds that is quite delicious! Hope you enjoy both the fresh curds and the aged cheddar. Curds are a great snack and they are also tasty added to chili or veggie soup as a garnish. Curds will be squeaky again when they get to room temp. Squeaky curds are fresh curds! I will be including fresh curds in the shares again next week!
Recipes.
French Grated Carrot Salad - with this recipe, you can add some of the carrot tops for the herbs
On the Farm.
Reminder: Saturday, July 17 from 10AM-4PM. We would love to see you here at the farm! We will be giving guided tours/ hay rides every hour on the hour. We will have burgers available and our farm store will be open with veggies, cheese, pork, and beef available for sale. So bring a cooler if you want to stock up! We have done the farm tour for the last several years, and we always really enjoy it. Hope to see you there, and be sure to let us know you are a CSA member so we can meet you!
We know some folks have been waiting patiently for our first meat share to be offered. so… the first meat shares will be in the store and they are ready for you to purchase shortly! The delivery dates are set. You will select one delivery date. This first meat delivery will be an approximately 30-35 pound box of pork. The box will include approximately 7 packs chops, 3 packs coppa steaks, 6 packs bacon, 6 pounds ground pork, 6 packs brats, 1 shoulder or loin roast, and 1 ham hock. Frozen, mixed cuts will arrive at your drop site and you will need to pick up your share as soon as you can since it’s frozen meat. I will send an email to everyone to let you know when the shares are available.
There will be another delivery that we will schedule near the end of the season that will include beef.
Next Week
beets
fennel
red cabbage?
romaine lettuce
broccoli?
green onions
zucchini
cucumbers