this week's farm share

[rushthatspeaks]

Produce:

three beets, with greens
one head garlic, with stalk
1 lb. sugar snap peas
1 lb. green beans
1 lb. mixed field greens
1 lb. Chinese lettuce
a bag of mint
2 small yellow squash
1 medium zucchinum
a pint of something that upon Google search appear to be gooseberries

Groceries:

one bear full of honey

No bread, no eggs, no pea greens. On the other hand, gooseberries! Fascinating! Have not eaten any yet.

Comments

[aurelia-star.livejournal.com]

"1 medium zucchinum"
That's awesome. Silly zucchini.

And Gooseberries are good:-) Enjoy!

~Emily

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Gooseberries are often very tart, especially when picked when not totally ripe. If they're green, rather than pale gold, they'll need lots of sugar.

Green gooseberries go great in pies and crumbles (with sugar) they make terrific jam (sugar) they mix well with strawberries and other sweet fruit (and sugar, are you sensing a theme here) but golden gooseberries are ambrosia. I have not had any since my friend Jeni died. In fact I'm not sure I've had gooseberries at all, though I have had gooseberry jam.

I envy your farm share. I always think they'll be full of things I can't eat or hate, but I could have eaten almost everything you've had so far.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I read this muttering "Fool!", but that might be misunderstood...

rushthatspeaks, if you stew your gooseberries to a pulp with sugar - not too much, you can always add more - and just enough water to melt the sugar, then let them cool, mash them up with a fork or push them through a sieve (your choice, both are good) and mix them with whipped cream, you have gooseberry fool, which is to my mind what gooseberries are for.

Also good in upside-down cake. And the French eat them with mackerel.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Oh, also, I have a great recipe for mint and zucchini summer soup, for which you have everything but the onion.

[gallian.livejournal.com]

as I recall, rushthatspeaks is allergic to onions....

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

I am allergic to onions, but not to shallots, which we can substitute for onions almost all the time. So it would be a recipe I would be interested in, as everyone has been sitting about staring at the zucchini in vague disinterest and distaste.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I love gooseberries! I've only had them green and cooked in things, but I am a great lover of acidity so they make me very happy.

And peas, yum. I should really get a farm share at some point, but going to the farmers' markets is so much fun (when I actually do it).

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

The gooseberries I saw at the farmer's market today were lovely-- perfectly ripe and red-gold. And gooseberry fool is a glorious dessert.

Nine