Saturday, October 2, 2010

September ends


Where has this year gone? I can't believe we're already at the end of September. We're finally getting some relief from the hot summer down here and it's so nice.  We got a big variety this week as you can see. A huge bunch of okra, tons of little round potatoes (those I swapped for the 6 eggplant they had in there- 6!!) a bunch of collard greens, some french breakfast radishes, one lone cucumber, peppers galore, a few onions and a few little tomatoes, zucchini and yellow squash and a couple of pattypans, one little butternut and a big bunch of sweet potatoes. Quite a haul.

Last night we used up last weeks sweet potatoes, this weeks red onions and the butternut squash. We had some pork cutlets and to go with it I made a saute of onions, sweet potatoes and an apple. I had saved the bottoms of 3 butternut squashes last week so I added this new one, hollowed them out and added maple syrup and butter and baked them. Delish!

This morning I plan to use the leftover sauteed onions/sw potatoes in a breakfast hash with eggs. For lunch we'll slice up that lone cuke with the radishes and little tomatoes for a fresh veggie plate to go with sandwiches. Tonight we're indulging in some steaks and the little round potatoes. Our favorite thing is to steam them in the rice cooker and season with butter and parmesan. Will saute up the collards too for some extra nutrition.

I'm going to bread and freeze our okra abundance for later.  That's on todays to-do list as well, guess I'm going to be in the kitchen a lot!

I picked up some ground lamb at the market last week so am going to try a new dish on Sunday, lamb & rice stuffed zucchini. We'll have it with pita and curried mashed sweet potatoes. Monday we need a break from all this meat. I'm going to crock pot a big mess of beans and have it with cornbread and sauteed summer squash. Tuesday going to try another new one, crispy polenta with sausage and pepper ragu from the CSA blog. Gotta use up these peppers.

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