Sandy Spring CSA

November 18, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: parsnips, carrots, white cauliflower, Romanesco cauliflower, collards, broccoli, winter squash, and white potatoes.

Farmer Pam had this suggestion about the Romanesco cauliflower:
This cauliflower is green – it looks like little pine trees, and is great raw. Last year I carefully sliced it up (an exacto [...]

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November 11, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: purple broccoli, green broccoli, apples, sweet peppers, hot peppers, rutabaga, onion, carrots, kale, and one half-gallon cider for each person.
Recipes:
The rutabaga - so new to me before the CSA, it took several tries just to be able to spell it! For those who, like [...]

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November 4, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: apples, celery, cauliflower, head lettuce, purple broccoli, white turnips with tops and a jug of cider.
Farmer Pam speaks enthusiastically about the turnips:
White turnips are nice and sweet. They may be eaten raw, grated into salad, or baked or boiled and then mashed – some [...]

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October 28, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: Sweet potatoes, peppers, white potatoes, salad mix, lemon grass herb (just the thing for soup or tea in this wet cold weather), radishes, broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, and apples.
Recipes: Life with Lemon Grass
Lemon grass - yet another CSA adventure!
Those who have never cooked with this [...]

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October 21, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: apples, Winter squash, radish, sweet potatoes, peppers, carrots, broccoli, and Swiss chard.
Recipes: Radishes and Friends
Who knew that radishes pair with so many of this week’s vegetables?
To pair with peppers, try this Pineapple-Radish Salsa, good with chicken, turkey, or pork chops. There’s also this Orange, [...]

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October 14, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: mustard greens, spinach, broccoli, sweet potatoes, onions, corn, winter squash, peppers or eggplant, herb and apples.

Recipes: Sweet Potato and Cabbage Medley
Some vegetables, when they come in the fall, can come HUGE - and two of these are cabbages and sweet potatoes. (Anyone else ever [...]

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October 7, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: apples, sweet potatoes, peppers, winter squash, salad, eggplant, herb, and cabbage.
Recipes: Get Stuffed!
The cool Fall weather is an invitation for baking: filling the house with warm enticing smells for hours on end. Magically, this week’s veggie box is stuffed full of stuff that stuffs [...]

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September 30, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: Fresh picked celery, eggplant, a winter squash (either butternut, buttercup, or kabocha), green or yellow string beans, broccoli, sweet potatoes, fresh apples, and fresh onions.
ANNOUNCEMENT: This is the last pickup for the Spring/Summer CSA season. Please return all your boxes! If you are [...]

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September 23, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: broccoli, a leafy green (collard or kale or lettuce or salad), potatoes, winter squash (which should be used right away, delicata winter squash (the weather was wet - no storage for this one), sweet peppers, hot peppers, apples, eggplant and beans.
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September 16, 2009: This week’s featured fruits and vegetables are: green cabbage, apples, Delicata winter squash, beans, onions, white potatoes, and corn.
Recipes:
Delicata squash - what a pleasure! I love it when these colorful, mild-tasting winter squashes make an appearance in the CSA box. Try them in this delicious Roasted Delicata Squash Salad - [...]

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