This week's basket has Potatoes, Carrots, Arugula, Jalapenos, Radishes, and Turnips.
On Thursday we went to the Taphouse in Manhattan to celebrate somebody (me) turning 18! Mom got their Bahn Mi sandwich, which was really good. She quickly realized that we could easily make it at home. So here is a recipe to try it out for yourself! Adding Arugula makes it taste great too.
And now that the weather is getting a bit chillier, it's the perfect weather for some soup. What's better than a nice warm bowl of potato soup? My favorite thing to do with potato soup is loading it with cheese and bacon bits, but you can do whatever you want with it.
Of course, if you're not a big soup person, why don't you give these roasted purple potatoes a try? If you do it just right, you could make them into delicious potato wedges or french fries.
This week's basket includes tomatoes, bell peppers, garlic, zucchini, and eggplant.
We suggest making stuffed bell peppers from this recipe! You can also cut up and freeze your peppers for later on in the wintertime. We do this and can have fajitas with fresh bell peppers year round!
This weeks basket includes Eggplant, Zucchini, Bell Peppers, Garlic and a pint of cherry tomatoes.
The basket includes all the perfect ingredients to make some ratatouille and maybe watch a specific Disney movie afterwards with the same name? This ratatouille recipe even includes cherry tomatoes, so its perfect!
It's been a busy spring, with our number one challenge being finding the time to get things started and repaired. When we are balancing family activities, two jobs, pigs, cattle, track meets, 4-H, and veggies, sometimes the veggies get moved to the back burner. Mother Nature took out a few potential work days with some beautiful rain; beautiful... but you can't plant in the rain.
Thankfully we have windows of opportunity to get caught up.
Last Sunday, Easter Sunday, we finally got our potatoes in the ground. (Ironically, according to my mom, that's exactly when the Farmers Almanac said to plant them this year.) With the Kubota tractor, our new potato planter, and helpers, we made quick work of planting the potatoes.
Meanwhile, these two were busy cultivating the other half of the town garden.
Then it rained. And rained. And rained. Slow, steady, wonderful... but inhibiting. It did come with a little wind, that finished off the rest of the plastic for Hoop B. We got the plastic ordered to fix the buildings, and that list is long. We need to rebuild end walls for Hoop A, B, and C; put a new roof on Hoop B; cover the two mobile buildings; and tear down Hoop D.
Today we got back out to it. The kids and I cleared out hoop B. John said, "It's good to be strong" so I guess he felt like a super hero, pulling all those overgrown kale and bok choy plants. Now the building is ready for Jay to come in with his kubota and tiller, once we get plastic on it.
And the seedlings are growing well in the greenshed.
Next week, prom and a cattle show take over our weekend, so we are hoping to get started on repairs in the evenings this week, weather permitting. We won't be selling at the first markets of the season, but we usually don't. We expect to have stuff to sell by mid-May, just as the school year wraps up.
Until then, it's plant, weed, water, repair, and plan.
This week's basket includes a Dozen Eggs, Radishes, Spinach, and Carrots.
I honestly think of eggs as one of the most versatile things in cooking. It's used in everything from a delicious breakfast Spinach Quiche to our personal favorite Egg Drop Soup recipe. Eggs are also fundamental in binding together many of our favorites like hamburgers and meatballs. In my opinion, the best use of eggs is for an egg wash on top of breads. It gives them a nice shine and a great crunch.
Radishes are a great way to spice up any recipe. This Baja Radish Salad is one of our favorites. So is the Pink Goo Salad that Dad made up. It tastes really nice on top of a plain bed of greens. Now we all like French fries, but have you ever had Radish fries? I haven't either, but I think they'd taste pretty good.
What can be said about Spinach that hasn't been said before? Spinach Artichoke Dip? Amazing. Mandarin Orange Salad? One of my favorites. People will even put Spinach in smoothies. (I personally like the fruity or chocolatey smoothies but that's just me.)
Somehow we've managed to have our carrots last this long, which is honestly surprising because normally they run out around the middle of January. Not this year though! However, there are some drawbacks to that. You can only make so many carrot recipes and most of the ones you find online are all the same. If you search up Carrot recipes on google the majority of the recipes are all some variation of Roasted Carrots and then you get a few Carrot Cake recipes and it's right back to the Roasted ones again. What about the Carrot fries or the Carrot Souffle which I just learned was a thing that I would like to try out.
I hope you enjoy this week's basket and I hope you have a great week and since this is the final basket until the summer months, I hope you stay healthy. Maggie.
