Turnip Report

I just made about 5 pints of rich and buttery vegetable broth.  Adding soy sauce (or something) seems to have mitigated the pink color from the beets.  Since the last batch of pink broth turned brown when I added cauliflower, potatos and cheese (Brookfield Farm's cauliflower chowder), I've decided that using beets in broth is far superior to spending the winter eating gallons of borscht.  The experiment of freezing the Chinese cabbage and the broccoli trunks worked out well.  I didn't even cut my fingers off while chopping the broccoli, though in the future I'll want to do that *before* I freeze the trunks.

I've also ended up with too many apples, some of which are in the oven now becoming a baked apple thing for lunches.  My big experiment was to actually mix flour, lemon juice, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg with the apples rather than putting it in the topping and hoping it will trickle down.  Petsi pies makes a great apple pie, which has inspired me.

I have a new room mate now who deserves a share of the freezer space, and I still haven't cleared out some food from last winter, so I've not signed up for a winter farm share.  I may or may not post about my future veggie lasagne and potato soup to this journal; time will tell.