CSA Week Nine

News from the field:

MELONS!!! The melons are here. We grow a French charentais type melon that is sweet and rich, and they are here now! We hope you like them because there are plenty more where these came from - that is assuming, of course, that the crows don’t eat them all first. But even with the crows getting some, there seems to be plenty to go around.

As far as recipes go this week, we looked over the list of goodies in the basket, and we couldn’t come up with much to actually cook. Have some salad with cucumbers, with some tomatoes with basil and cheese on the side, steam the zux, eat the sungolds raw, and inhale the melon for dessert (or breakfast).

In the Basket:

Basil – see, tomatoes

Cucumbers - Waverly calls these pickles even though they are fresh. Luckily she is not even two, so she has a while to sort all this out.

Dried garlic - Believe it or not, this is the first of the fall stuff we carry.

Melons – Slice, scoop seeds, eat.

Mesclun – Another favorite returns. We finally managed to get some lettuce and other goodies germinate in this heat.

Fresh onion - Lately we have really liked fried onions on the side of whatever we are eating. Chop into skillet with butter, splash some soy sauce, yum.

Sun golds - By request! We will be missing these in December!

Tomatoes - Munch with the basil and a little cheese.

Zucchini – They are back! Believe it or not, we will probably miss fresh zucchini in December too.