Week 17; September 24, 2020

What’s in the box?

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butternut squash
peppers
cauliflower or romanesco
carrots
cilantro
radishes
salad turnips
garlic
onions
potatoes (medium and large shares)
cabbage (medium and large shares)
salad mix
spinach

Notes on the box.

Butternut squash is great for soups or for pie. you can remove the seeds, peel the whole thing, cube it up, and boil, saute, roast, or steam the squash for mashing or using for many dishes.
Squash, potatoes, garlic, and onions should be stored out of the fridge. Everything else can go in the fridge.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

Deneb, our gouda style cheese. And Feta.

Recipes.

coming soon!

On the Farm.

If you have any question about if you have a delivery or a hold, you can call or email us and we can check before you make the trip to pick-up. Delivery notifications go out to everyone that has been a member this season.

Next Week.

spinach
salad mix
potatoes
turnips
winter squash

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Week 16; September 17, 2020

What’s in the box?

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beets
leeks
carrots
saladmix
spinach
cauliflower or romanesco
salad turnips
radishes
potatoes (red or blue)
peppers
delicata squash
buttercup kabocha squash

Notes on the box.

If you can’t eat all the peppers now, I like to dice them up and put them in a freezer bag for winter stir-fries and hashes. You don’t have to thaw them out before cooking, just straight into the pan!
Kabocha squash is really dense and makes an excellent pumpkin pie if you are ready for that already!

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

Circle of the Sun and Cheese Curds! Circle of the Sun is great melted on top f roasted veggies or cubed up and put into a salad.
While Cheese Curds are a perfect snack just as they are, you can also toss them on top of a bowl of chili or veggie soup and let them get a little soft from the heat it’s really great!

Recipes.

Creamed Leeks this can be used to top roasted potatoes, squash, pasta, salmon….

  • Slice 3-4 leeks into 1/4 inch rounds

  • Saute leeks in 2 tablespoons butter in a until wilted.

  • Add a cup of chicken or veggie broth and boil liquid down by half.

  • Add a cup of cream. salt and pepper to taste and reduce until thickened add an optional squeeze of lemon and pinch of cayenne pepper

9 Kabocha Squash recipes!

Carrot Halwa - an Indian carrot dessert! yum!

On the Farm.

It’s really starting to look like fall around here! We are enjoying the start of the leaves changing color and the cool weather and lunches of soups and roasted veggies. We wanted to tell you about our friend Nancy’s herbal medicine CSA share which you can have delivered to your dropsite with your Turnip Rock CSA share. Her farm is Red Clover Herbal Apothecary and she makes really wonderful tinctures, salves, and other plant based wellness items. She offers seasonal CSA shares andthe sign-ups for her Fall/Winter shares are open. This year her Fall/Winter Herbal share includes the following:

  • Elderberry Syrup

  • Winter Wellness Plant Extract

  • Winter Warming Elixir (aka ‘Fire Cider’)

  • Herbal Sore Throat Spray with Propolis

  • Cold Season Herbal Tea Blend

cost of basic share - $75.00
optional add-ons are also available
I’ve personally been having some mild anxiety lately (I’m not alone, right?!) and have found her Ease of Mind extract combined with a few drops of her CBD oil have helped me greatly! Here’s the link to learn more or sign up  http://www.redcloverapothecary.com/csa/whats-in-the-herbal-csa-box/

Next Week.

garlic
cabbage
butternut squash
onions
spinach
salad mix
beets
carrots
romanesco/cauliflower

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Week 15; September 10, 2020

What’s in the box?

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basil (medium and large)
broccoli (medium and large)
tomatoes
radishes
peppers
salad turnips
delicata squash
onions
cucumbers
salad mix
spinach

Notes on the box.

This is the last of tomatoes! Summer crops are really wrapping up. The frost has killed the basil. It’s time to transition to fall crops.
Delicata squash is lovely and versatile. The skin is edible. It can be stored outside of the fridge for several weeks.
The salad turnips are nice roasted and the greens are also edible.

Cosmic Wheel Creamery Cheese Shares.

Yummy whole milk ricotta! And also Moonshadow. The ricotta will keep for a couple to a few weeks in the fridge. My favorite way to eat it is to go savory putting it on a good piece of toast with a drizzle of olive oil and salt and pepper. Or it’s also nice sweet with honey and dried fruit and toasted nuts.

Recipes.

Roasted Veggies with Caper-Rasin Vinaigrette and Breadcrumbs
Vinaigrette recipe - Put 3 Tbsp balsamic vinegar in a little bowl with 1/3 cup golden raisins. Put 3 garlic cloves, 3 Tbsp capers, a 2 oz can of drained anchovy fillets into a food processor and pulse until you have a course paste. Add parsely and pulse until chopped. Add raisins and vinegar and puls until blended but slightly course.
You can use turnips, radishes, broccoli, delicata squash, really any veggies that you like to roast. You want about a pound and a half of veggies.
Prepare veggies by halving radishes/turnips, cutting delicata squash into half moons, cutting broccoli into bite size pieces, etc. Heat oven to 450 with a baking sheet in the oven. Toss veggies with a few Tbsp olive oil and season with salt and pepper. When oven and baking sheet are hot, carefully remove the pre-heated baking sheet and dump veggies onto it. Return to oven and roast until veggies are nice and tender and browned on the edges. When done, pile veggies into a big bowl and toss with juice of half a lemon and the vinaigrette. Toss with fresh breadcrumbs or freshly toasted and chopped nuts or pumpkin seeds and serve.

Maple Roasted Delicata Squash with Sweet Red Onions

Spinach Ricotta Pasta Bake

On the Farm.

Next Week.

cabbage
potatoes
leeks
red kuri squash
garlic
spinach

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