Turnip Report

[mathhobbit]

The farmshare produced beets!  I don't know if it was the generous quantity of brown sugar or the pre-processed ginger goo, but today's was the best batch of chocolate beet muffins I've ever produced:

http://thelunacafe.com/heavenly-chocolate-beet-tea-loaf/ ; (Bake 15-20 minutes for muffins)

The price of white peaches has fallen below $2/pound at my grocery store, so I'm buying 5 at a time and making small batches of jam in the breadbot.  (Three for jam, two for eating.)

Comments

[kelkyag]

I though the farmshare went belly-up? Or is this the "you can go out to the farm and pick whatever's ready" slow death?

Do white peaches make better jam than yellow peaches?

[mathhobbit]

I personally prefer yellow peaches, but for some reason they're more expensive.

The farm share took our money, and can maybe get out of the requirement to refund it if they sometimes deliver food to Central Square? I'm not going to worry too hard about it -- some veggies are better than no veggies.

[kelkyag]

Huh. I usually think of white peaches as less common and more expensive. I think both Market Basket and S&S have had "eastern" yellow peaches for $2/lb or under recently, though I don't know if either does this week.

I would be surprised if the CSA has money to refund -- I'd expect most of the share cost would go to top-of-season cost, possibly with some set aside for labor and utilities. But also, is the farm share for a fixed quantity of vegetables, or is it for a share of the output of the farm with inherent risk if things go wrong?

But yes, veggies are good! Does this mean I should not try to drag you out vegetable shopping, at least this week? :)