In your share! Week 11 of the CSA with radicchio, leeks, and more peas!

Week11 Packing list and recipes

August Bounty

Radiccio, Leeks bring the bitter and mild

Hey Food Friends,

We have been busy, as crops are harvested, cleaning out the ground, fertilizing, and planting our fall greens. Hard to believe we are already at the last week of August! Crops will continue to grow, although our last call for outdoor plantings is coming soon. Feels like a change in the weather to wild mushroom and berry picking is upon us.

We have a couple of new star veggies in your share this week -- raddichio and leeks.

Our first new appearance this week is Radicchio - a new salad crop to our rotation and mostly commonly seen as the red chunks in fancy salad mix. You can definitely use it raw in this fashion, but a light grilling or braising will mellow the flavour considerably!
Raddichio is common "Old World" vegetable, pairing well with rich olive oil and red wine.The recipe below is for raddichio and maderia, a combination suggested by our chef friend - it also includes a cup of zucchini and parsley which many of you may have still kicking around from last week:
http://deliciousliving.com/food-and-beverage/radicchio-and-zucchini-parmesan

& a great grilling inspriation for those sunny days:
http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1014864-grilled-sausages-and-radicchio

Leeks may be a new food for some people, and although they can be substituted for onions any time, they really are amazing in a soup with fresh potatoes:

http://www.foodwithlegs.com/julia-childs-vichyssoise-for-jc100/

As for our outlook for the rest of the season -- you can expect a steady heft to your share each week as we make up for a very light July. We had kind of a bust in the winter squash, beans, and snow peas crops -- but there are lovely zucchinis, basil, and shelling peas pulling through. Not to mention a full bed of bulbing onions. Other crops in our future include more carrots, celery, giant kohlrabi and a special late harvest of fennel & spinach if all goes well!

Yum yum!

Nadya & Sarah

In the LARGE share:

Zucchini - real big stripey or green zucchini ~1.5lbs, just enough for a zucchini bread!
Big bunch of "green wave" mustard - spicy! for braising!
Shelling peas, 1 lb, shell, blanch, and freeze these for winter - you will be so happy! Might be one more little pick of these next week
Leeks, 3 per
Large radicchio head
Lettuce mix - 250g of very mild leaf lettuce, goes great with the bitter & spicy greens
Tomatoes or English cucumber - tough to make the call on this an "or" this week, but more of both are on the way!
Bunch of basil - stores best at room temperature if you snip the ends and stand it up in a small jar of water, like a bouquet
Garlic - 2 bulbs of New York White, a softneck garlic with beautiful purple wrapper - stores well!
Bunch of cilantro

In the SMALL share:

Zucchini - big zuke of either green, white, yellow, stripey... or some combination of tender baby ones just over a pound. Delightful for baking, grilling, & sautee
Shelling peas, 1 lb, shell, blanch, and freeze these for winter - you will be so happy! Might be one more little pick of these next week
Leeks, 2 per
Medium or 2 small radicchio head
Lettuce mix - 175g of very mild leaf lettuce, goes great with the bitter & spicy greens
Tomatoes - reds & a wee taste of bright orange sungold cherry tomatoes!
Sprigs of basil - stores best at room temperature if you snip the ends and stand it up in a small jar of water, like a bouquet
Garlic - 1 bulbs of New York White, a softneck garlic with beautiful purple wrapper - stores well!
Bunch of cilantro OR dill

As usual, everything in your share is "farm fresh" so please give it a little wash before you enjoy! Doing it all on the first evening keeps there from being a scary unopened bag hiding out in the back of the fridge. But, your greens should last a long time in plastic.

** Pint boxes / Berry boxes can be returned ***
We will reuse the green fiber boxes - they do a great job of keeping the tomatoes safe in your share! Just pop them into the closed CSA pickup bins to keep from the elements.

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