Category Archives: Community Supported Agriculture

CSA Week 20 — The Final Delivery

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: October 18, 2010

Photo by Donna (click the photo to go to her posts)

So this is it, a gloomy fall day, and smallish haul (summer's bounty fading, sigh), with a lot of green plum tomatoes, not even very good green plum tomatoes. Anyone have a good pickling recipe for them!? Think I may try a curry flavored pickle. Would fry them but have been having too much fun frying the sweet potatoes—so much better than russets! Parsley, kale, lettuces, beets, some nice crisp apples, onions, scallions, delicious watermelon. So what's the final verdict on this summer's CSA experience? Ours? The product over all was good. I think the value was acceptable, and worth it for the quality and for our desire to encourage and support the farmers who help us get good food for our families. There is only one negative, ...

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CSA Week 19

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: October 11, 2010

This was what I was looking at when my vegetable love alarm went off. A San Francisco hotel room during BlogHer 2010. Unfortunately, it's going to happen. We forgot to pick up our CSA. Donna had flown to New York first thing Saturday morning after a last minute invite for some city fun (bloodies at Balthazar, Aquagrill for cherry stones and oysters, Eataly for pizza and pastas, the rooftop terrace at the Grammercy Park Hotel for drinks and then Peasant for a late dinner of razor clams, octopus, tripe, cuttlefish and veal bolognese over a thick eggy pasta—oy, I went to the wrong coast!)—so asking a friend to pick up our share had not been on my pre-flight to do list, and Donna, in her haste, didn't think of it. When I remembered, it was 8 am Saturday, west coast ...

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VEGETABLE LOVE! (CSA Week 17)
Fall: Butternut Squash Soup, Poached Lettuce

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: September 25, 2010

Ohio CSA Week 17, photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman (click photo to see her alternate shot)

Yesterday was 92 degrees. This morning was low sixties, with that wonderful slate sky that descends in fall and the chill wakes me up and makes me want to cook. There’s still corn the farmers market, fat kerneled and juicy, still very sweet, still aching to be baked. The green beans are getting big and tough and can be roasted (hot oven, chilli flakes, cumin, smashed garlic, 20 minutes). The chillis are vivid and the jalapeno plant that Donna planted in the spring is loaded down with fat hot ones. I got a jar of chilli’s pickling, more or less this recipe here out of this awesome book, only I’m going ...

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Sweet Potato Fries: CSA Week 16

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: September 18, 2010

photo by iPhone

CSA week 16 is easily the heaviest bundle yet, with the apples, big tomatos, the (surprise!) bok choy, more nice green beans under all the lettuce. Apples, fall is here. Sweet potatoes, more fall. I'm getting pretty goddam tired of those green peppers though. Wish the dog would eat them. I ordered eggs this week $2.50 extra, well worth it. They're a buck more at the farmers market. And I just ate two of them, another Saturday morning favorite: egg sandwich, yolks intentionally broken, fried gently in butter, salt and pepper, topped with chopped bacon and slipped between two pieces of soft white bread fresh out of the plastic, one piece generously smeared with Hellmann's. Yes, Hellmann's mayo. I know I make a stink about making your own mayo and how easy ...

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Cherry Tomato Pizza Margherita
(CSA Week 15)

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: September 11, 2010

photo by donna

Week 15 from Geauga Family Farms. I think they're getting better—the lettuce is fresher, there's less signs of travel in the soft vegetables. As I've pointed out before, just because you grow heirloom fruits and veg, doesn't mean they're good. You've got to be a good farmer or grower. And just because you grow excellent fruits and veg, doesn't mean they're still excellent when they arrive on the table of the family that purchased the CSA. Every part of the process matters. Fun CSA this week: I'm not a huge fan of cherry tomatoes—too much skin relative to the amount of flesh, and frankly, I don't love them enough to blanch, shock, and peel them. But last night, photographing a bacon and eggs pizza for the new book, I had some leftover dough ...

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Category Archives: Community Supported Agriculture

CSA Week 20 — The Final Delivery

CSA Week 19

VEGETABLE LOVE! (CSA Week 17)
Fall: Butternut Squash Soup, Poached Lettuce

Sweet Potato Fries: CSA Week 16

Cherry Tomato Pizza Margherita
(CSA Week 15)

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