It’s the first week of the Food Farm Summer CSA share!
Welcome if you are new to this, and welcome if this is your 20th year! We are glad you’re here. Thank you for being part of our farm by choosing to participate in the farm this season. Using fresh, whole food is extra work, and we are grateful that you’ll do that work. It makes what we do on the farm worth it -indeed it’s the whole point.
The first week of deliveries is a truly exciting time here on the farm, especially this year. We have three crew members who are new to our farm and to vegetable farming in general, and you could just feel the excitement as folks showed up this morning. To those of us who have been around awhile this first box is pretty modest, and the anxiety of the season ahead sits heavy with us. Being able to see the beginning of harvest season through their eyes gives us renewed energy for the sweat and toil that lies ahead.
In that spirit, take this food, bless it in whatever way makes sense to you, and let the energy it gives you propel you into action that makes the world, and whatever you have agency over, more just, fair, and loving.
For the farm crew,
Janaki
In your share this week:
Pac choi – Lettuce – Rhubarb – Spinach – Greens mix – Oregano
The secret to eating your veggies, especially greens? Drizzle something amazing over them! From our friends at the Duluth Grill (who know a thing or two about making our veggies taste extra good):
Curry Sauce!
- 1/4 cup seeded serrano peppers
- 1 1/2 tsp coriander seeds
- 1/4 tsp cumin
- 1/8 tsp black pepper corns
- 1/2 stalk lemon grass
- 1 tsp chopped cilantro
- 1 Tbsp fresh grated ginger
- 1/2 lime zest (use the other half of the lime to make a quarantini?)
- 1 tsp lime juice
- 1 Tbsp chopped garlic
- 1 Tbsp diced onion
- 1 1/2 tsp aminos
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tsp turmeric
- One 15oz can coconut milk
Toast coriander and pepper corns in a skillet. Trim and chop lemon grass. Combine all ingredients except the coconut milk in a food processor until smooth.
Place puree in medium pot and simmer for 5 minutes.
Add coconut milk, whisk and simmer for another 15 minutes. Serve over greens or roasted veggies, keep sealed in the fridge!
Rhubarb Chutney -from Martha Stewart (she serves it along side thick cut bacon -yum!)
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup light corn syrup
- 3 tablespoons white-wine vinegar
- 8 ounces rhubarb, cut into a 1/2-inch dice (2 cups)
- 1 shallot, finely chopped (1/3 cup)
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh ginger (from a 1 1/2-inch piece)
- 1/2 habanero or Scotch-bonnet pepper, finely chopped (ribs and seeds removed for less heat, if desired)
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1 1/4 pounds extra-thick-cut bacon, halved crosswise
Step 2
Stir in rhubarb, shallot, ginger, chile pepper, and 1/4 teaspoon each salt and pepper; return to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until rhubarb is tender and liquid is syrupy, about 10 minutes. Strain chutney, reserving syrup, and transfer to a serving bowl. Return syrup to saucepan and simmer over medium heat until thickened and reduced to 1/3 cup, about 5 minutes.
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