Saturday morning CSA pickup

This is a reprint from my personal blog from July 31, 2010
 
I just got back from the CSA farm where I picked up a wonderful share of summer vegetable. Let me just plug this for a minute. River Road Gardens is a beautiful biodynamic farm tended by two very dedicated and extremely hardworking and loving people: Jon and Emily. I feel so blessed every time I pick up my share of the crop.

Today Emily told me how much trouble they are having with vermin. There are lots of critters in the field trying to eat up all the food we humans have paid for. This is one trick about growing crops without poison. But, they are committed to poison-free growing. I didn’t feel like the voles got my food. I came home with a big bag of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, okra, basil, onions and amaranth! I’ll do a bit of research on that one. I have only ever had amaranth inside baked goods.

So, this week I will make Ratatouille for the first time. What goes with it? Good crusty bread I am thinking.

Stay tuned for a delicious meal...

How to cook with all those CSA treasures

Cook What You Have is a new blog by River Road Gardens that highlights individual vegetables from the biodynamic farm. Need to know what to do with all that eggplant or peppers or squash? Check out this blog.

Summer Bounty

Check out what I picked up from my farmer yesterday! Jealous? Join the River Road Gardens CSA. Coming home with this amazing selection of beautiful food biodynamically and organically grown by people who love what they do and work incredibly hard makes be do a little jig every other Saturday (I split a share with a friend).

In addition to these lovely squash, garlic, eggplant, sweet and hot and peppers, I was given a huge bunch of basil and a few pounds of perfectly ripened tomatoes.
I will attempt to make sauce with all these beautiful tomatoes. I borrowed a food mill from a friend and will try something I have never done. After that I will try turning all that basil into pesto (another thing I have never done). It's a food adventure in my kitchen today!

Some hours later....
I made the best damn pesto! I loosely followed Jamie Oliver's recipe.