What’s in the Box: Sweet pepper, green pepper, slicing and heirloom tomatoes, porcelain garlic, sweet yellow onion, red torpedo onion, jalapeño peppers, poblano peppers, curly parsley, celery, swiss chard, zucchini, summer squash, leeks, and cantaloupe (Bi-Weekly Only)
What’s going on at the farm: We are seeing some significant shift in weather and day length this week on the farm as nights begin to dip down into the 50’s. Summer crops will slow soon and are showing signs of it in the field. Fall broccoli and cauliflower is sizing up in the fields, and our winter squash is nearing maturity. We will have a lot of sweet peppers in many colors and varieties coming in for the next few weeks so expect healthy portions of these sweet beauties. We have been making a lot of ratatouille at home and freezing some batches for winter. Also taco’s and fajita type dishes at home using up all the pepper seconds we can possibly consume. I also enjoy stuffed peppers with rice and beef and of course there are many twists on that dish to experiment with. Our poblano peppers are a very mild chile that are great for stuffing too. Our herb this week is curly parsley and as we found out last week parsley is a vitamin packed herb which goes good with just about anything. Jalapeño is the small fat possibly checked (cracked) green chile in your box and they are very hot this year…. I like to make jalapeño poppers by splitting them and stuffing them with cream cheese or cheddar cheese and then slow cooking them on the grill for an hour or so on indirect heat. I remove the seeds for this but you may want to wear gloves as the seeds have very hot oils. Fresh pico is my favorite thing to make with the ripe tomatoes, sweet yellow onion, hot peppers, and maybe a little lime, chile powder, and cilantro. Cherry tomatoes are slowing down quite a bit right now and seem to be almost done so they will not be in shares. Our eggplant has also slowed down quickly with the cool temps this week, along with the full size tomatoes which are definitely slowing down as well. We still have enough tomatoes growing to get you some fresh fruits though. Enjoy them while they last folks as we head into the last month of summer. Some other late summer fall crops coming soon include dragon’s tongue beans, edamame, winter squash, broccoli, and romanesco cauliflower. Thanks and enjoy!
