Landisdale Farm CSA, week 12

Saturday, August 23, 2008

There’s irony afoot this week.  Convinced that I wouldn’t be getting tomatoes through the CSA share, I ordered a 25 pound box of plum tomatoes from the Fair Food Farmstand a few days ago.  And now tomatoes were included in the share this week.  Granted, not enough to make sauce from (as I will with the plum tomatoes), but still.

The share contained the following:

• Two giant heads of lettuce.  Seriously...no more freaking lettuce.  Enough!  My compost heap runneth over, people.  At the very least, I found a vegan who offered to take my lettuce.  But I would rather have no lettuce in the share at all.  I’m sick to death of even looking at it.
• One spaghetti squash.  Something different, so that’s great!
• Three cucumbers.  Good, good.
• Two heads of garlic.
• A small flat container of basil
• Two handfuls of red potatoes
• A pint of plums

When we picked up the share, the ladies at the stand informed us we were allowed to pick out four heirloom tomatoes.  As I was doing so, I heard some guy next to me mention Farm to Philly.  I forget sometimes that people do, indeed, read the blog!  Happily, I didn’t act like a wanker and yell, “Hey, that’s my blog!” I just picked out my tomatoes (which I am super glad to have and hope that more are included in next week’s share) and left.

For the sake of comparison, you might want to check out what was in the Lancaster Farm Fresh share at this time last year.

I still have every single last plum from last week’s share.  With another pint on hand, I figure I have to do something with them now.  I have options, happily.  I can put my dehydrator to use and make dried plums.  Or I can make plum sauce of some sort, which sounds more interesting to me.  I like the idea of making plum barbecue sauce.

Alternatively, there’s plum granita or plum sorbet.