9/24/24 – Week 16 (B)

In your CSA share this week

• Acorn Squash
• Keuka Gold Potato
• Baby Leeks
• Green Beans
• Watermelon
• Peppers – Italian, Bell, mini-sweet
• Tomato – Mix – grape/cherry/slicing
• Onion – white, yellow
• Garlic – Russian Red

Link to Featured Recipe of the Week :

I try to keep these recipes simple with familiar ingredients you should have in your stocked pantry. I create, prepare, and share these recipes to help inspire you to use your veggies for the week.

Recipe links from past weeks :

• Roasted Potato and Vegetable Medley -potato, peppers, onion, garlic, beans, grape tomato
• Oven Baked Red Norland Potato – can use any potato
• Roasting Fresh Italian Peppers

Veggie notes & tips:

Acorn Squash: storage – cool and dry above 55; uses – roasted, stuffed, soups, salads, pasta, cassaroles. Must be eaten cooked and skin is edible after roasting.

Leeks: Use the white and light green part; our leeks are pretty clean and will only have some soil if any at the very top where the dark leaves meet the light green. Baby leeks are delicate and tender with onion aroma.

Mini Sweet Peppers: Small yellow or orange – sweet snacking peppers with very few seeds; try stuffing with your favorite seasoned cream cheese and serve as snacks

Tomato: We let your tomatoes vine ripen as much as possible. Let your tomatoes continue to ripen on the counter. Do not refrigerate until ripe. If you must refrigerate allow to return to room temperature before eating for the best flavor. Sauces, salads, sandwiches…YUM!

Garlic: Use in everything!! Well, almost everything. Roasting mellows and deepens the garlic flavor. Quick Recipe: Roast in an air fryer: foil pouch, cut off very top of garlic head to expose tops of cloves, lightly drizzle with olive oil, air fry at 390 degrees for 10-20 min. Carefully open pouch and air fry for 5 more minutes to carmelize. Use roasted garlic on bread, in hummus, added to dressings and dips.

Peppers: can be chopped, sliced or minced and frozen without blanching. Jalapeno heat comes from the seeds and membrane, remove to reduce heat, use gloves if possible. Jalapenos are excellent in cornbread. Freezing: prepare how you intend to use them. Not a fan of a lot of heat? Freeze them after tiny dicing them in a baggie making square indents for easy removal of a small chunk or ice cube tray. Frozen peppers can be used in scrambles, cassaroles, soups, breads, on pizza, in sauces, and sautes.

• Join our private Facebook Group: EGFCSA Veggie Group – show us what you are cooking https://www.facebook.com/groups/egfcsa/
• Check out the Vegetable Directory for storage tips, recipes, and more.
• We also have Pinterest boards for most vegetables with recipe ideas
• Use your 2022 or 2023 CSA Member Recipe Book for even more ideas!!

From the Field and Farm

Only 4 more weeks!! The last week of delivery is Oct 22nd – 25th.

Unless…. you join our CSA Extension for 4 more weeks – limited to 40 shares and current members can join before we offer it to new members.

CSA Extension: $150 – Tuesday, October 29th – Thursday, November 19th

No paperwork for current members. Payable by check, cash or Venmo (friends and family)

What is anticipated in the Extension Share? Potato, Butternut Squash, Acorn Squash, Onion, Garlic, Cabbage, Watermelon Radish, Purple Daikon, Turnip, Rutabaga, Celeriac, Arugula, Swiss Chard, Parsley, Kale

2025 CSA Renewal – Renewal begins Saturday, October 5th at our Annual Pot Luck -CSA Member Renewal Party – 1-3 at the farm. Current members have the first opportunity to renew. We will then open membership to new members. Details will be emailed later this week.

Future Farm Events:
OCTOBER – POT LUCK – CSA MEMBER RENEWAL PARTY – Saturday, October 5th 1-3

Thank you for choosing to support our small farm and letting us nourish you this season!