Mid August is the season of can’t-fit-it-all-in. With each meal, especially when preparing a special one, like for Sabrina’s parents’ visit this past week, we are constantly saying “oh, we should have also thrown in…..” as in, the pesto pasta dish with piles of sliced heirloom tomatoes, could have also included grilled summer squash and eggplant. The salad, with two kinds of greens, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, cabbage, and shredded beets was perfect, and yet we still felt that perhaps we should dash back over to the farmstore so we didn’t leave out the radishes. We’re trying to remember it doesn’t all have to fit into one meal. We did stop, though, to fry up a round of shishito peppers, because they hadn’t tried those yet and we just couldn’t let that pass. (and if you haven’t tried them, you really must—just throw them in a hot skillet of olive oil or sesame oil till the skins blister, then grab them by the stem and eat them up).
It’s a beautiful problem, really, when the number of vegetables you want to eat can’t all fit into one meal. For farm members, all the deliciousness may not even fit in your weekly feedbag, so remember you can use your member discount to purchase more.
And more and more is the theme of this week….most notably, 450+ pounds of tomatoes hauled in today (not to mention close to 100 pints of cherry tomatoes yesterday. The farmstore is loaded, and we are just now getting ready to pull out the market trailer for the day, to display the bounty. There are bulk flats available for your canning, freezing, processing pleasure, or you can come pick up just the one perfect fruit for your sandwich today. We’ll have some extra crew on hand for the hosted time this afternoon (Tuesdays 3:00-6:00), to help with the bounty. We’ll be working to get onions and garlic processed, and peppers picked too, to aid in your salsa or saucing efforts. We are still drastically short-staffed, so please be patient if something you were hoping for is not yet harvested—we’ll be working on it. But tomatoes are, for sure, ready for you!
Come on out and load up today, or see us at market, for the continuing wave of summer goodness.
-Mary and Noah, SweetRoot Farm