11/18 Farm Share Arrival

The week of 11/18--just before Thanksgiving--brought us some wonderful produce that we did in fact use in our Thanksgiving meal.  We received two Butternut squashes, carrots, an abundance of onions, green beans, cranberries, turnips, sweet potatoes, Russet potatoes, and a bunch of herbs (rosemary, sage, and thyme) to stick in the cavity of the turkey for seasoning.

Happy, healthy eating!

10/21 Farm Share Arrival

Here is the next week's Farm Share arrival (from October 21, 2010).

As you can see, we received red leaf lettuce, green apples, romaine lettuce, some great carrots, parsley, collards, beets (which I gave to my friend--she made chocolate beet muffins with them--happy to spread the love), yellow onions, and a buttercup squash.

Happy (healthy) eating!

10/14 Farm Share Arrival

I am wayyy behind, but I'm determined to round out the full year (Fall 2009 - Fall 2010) of Farm Share arrival posts.  It's hard to believe, but I will soon be done!

Below is the Farm Share arrival from October 14, 2010.    In this box we received lovely sweet potatoes, russet potatoes, Lacitano kale, green leaf lettuce, bunched spinach, baby bok choy, apples, daikon radish, Kabocha (or a buttercup-type squash), a green pepper, and a couple yellow onions.  What a great assortment!  

10/7 Farm Share Arrival

This week we received a great box: 1 butternut squash, Swiss chard, 4 apples, a bunch of arugula, a bunch of green leaf lettuce, 2 broccoli heads, a lot of little russet potatoes, and 2 leeks.

Happy (healthy) eating!

9/23 Farm Share Arrival

The week of September 23rd provided a great Farm Share: 4 green apples, 2 leeks, 2 butternut squash, 6 ears of corn, 4 yellow onions, salad mix, and collard greens.  

We forgot to pick up our box on September 30 (sad!) so this is the last delivery post until next week, but look for a few recipe additions!

Happy (healthy) eating!

9/10 Farm Share Arrival

This was our first Farm Share pick up from our new location in Boston.  It's not as convenient as our previous set-up (we could walk to the pick up before, now we have to drive) and we pick up the share on a different day; so we're still getting used to the routine (e.g., we forgot to pick it up this week--so sad!)

On September 10 we had a great box: 4 ears of corn, two bell peppers (one red, one green/red hybrid, nice!), beets, 4 apples, 3 tomatoes, an eggplant, flat leaf parsley, carrots, rainbow Swiss chard, and red onions.

8/25 Farm Share Arrival

On August 25, we received the following produce in our Farm Share box:

Basil, beets, salad greens (I think this bag was arugula), a baby watermelon (sugar baby), cucumber, 2 tomatoes, callaloo, and a green pepper.  

The watermelon was delicious, that thing was gone in 1 day!

8/18 Farm Share Arrival

I am WAY behind on posting and I apologize that the next several posts will be retrospective updates.  My husband and I, after a busy summer of weddings and out of town trips, unexpectedly found out we had to move.  Apartment searching consumed all free time; which meant blog posting and recipe-searching was somewhat put on hold.  We are now settled into a new apartment, and I finally have some semblance of a regular schedule and have just this week gotten back to some cooking!  In the next couple weeks I will update the blog more, but I'm also winding things down on the blog permanently, I think.  More to come on that later.  On to the point of the blog, the Farm Share.

This Farm Share arrival dates back to mid-August.

In this week's share, we received three Japanese eggplant, two green bell peppers, three tomatoes, two lemon cucumbers, a huge bag of green beans, a cantaloupe, collard greens, and an avocado.

I hope you've enjoyed several weeks of happy (healthy) eating!

8/11 Farm Share Arrival

This week's Farm Share arrival was spectacular!  While I didn't have time to set up my weekly picture like I usually do, I did take some snapshots of a few produce items I was really excited about.

This week we received: a CANTALOUPE (one of my all-time favorite fruits), tomatillos (green salsa here we come!!!--another fave), a beautiful bunch of basil, our first large tomatoes of the season (!!), celery, green peppers, shallots, zucchini, corn, cucumber, and green leaf lettuce.

We used this basil tonight in a pesto my husband made for pizza.  Enough was left over to use later this weekend.

We also used tomatoes tonight on the pizza; they were wonderful, so flavorful!

A wonderful box!  Happy (healthy) eating!

8/4 Farm Share Arrival

Here is our beautiful Farm Share box from LAST week.  I forgot to take a picture of this week's box, but I'll post another entry with details of its contents (it was a wonderful box!).

Last weeks box came with 2 beautiful green peppers, a large head of red leaf lettuce, a bunch of red kale, three summer squash, a box of currants, a HUGE eggplant, four lemon cucumbers, parsley, and celery.

As a side note, I've really enjoyed the lemon cucumbers.  They make a perfect snack sliced up.

Until next time, happy (healthy) eating!!

7/28 Farm Share Arrival

Last week we got a great box, including: a huge bunch of basil, 2 ears of corn, 1 head of beautiful green leaf lettuce, 1 bunch collard greens, cucumbers, green beans, zucchini, squash, beets, 3 Patty Pan squash, and a bag of wheat berries.  

We pick our our new Share tomorrow...time flies!  But we've made good use of what we got in this box so far.  Stay tuned!

Happy (healthy) eating!

6/30 Farm Share Arrival

It has been AGES since I last blogged.  This summer has been one event after another...from out of town trips to hosting guests to juggling two internships to...finding out we have to move.  For those of you familiar with the Boston housing search, it is all consuming and frustrating.  But, after a couple months of looking (literally), we signed a lease today.  Back to normal life (except for that whole packing up and moving thing).  We hope we can continue our Farm Share membership in our new location--we're going to a completely different part of the city--so stay tuned to see if this might be the last season of the blog.  I would be sad!

Anyway, on to what is really important, our produce!

Here is the Farm Share from JUNE 30 (I know, almost a month later).  I have been really bad at taking pictures of our box lately, but I promise I'll try to get better!  I think one of the most interesting parts of being a Farm Share member is finding out what you get every week!

June 30 we received a head of red leaf lettuce, a bag of garlic scapes, 2 beets, kale, 2 cucumber, 3 summer squash and 2 zucchini, some russet potatoes and a huge head of cabbage.

Happy (healthy) eating!

6/23 Farm Share Arrival

This week's Farm Share arrival seemed, well, a little lighter than previous boxes.  I suspect the transition from an "East Coast" share to a "Local" share is still working itself out, because I think we usually enjoy a few more produce items than we got this week.  But that's okay!  It's not really all about quantity, but quality, too.  And this box was a good one.

This week we received red leaf lettuce, collard greens, red potatoes, popcorn (!), parsely, local strawberries and grape tomatoes.  Let me tell you what, these collard greens were some of the best I've ever had!

Happy (healthy) eating!

6/16 Farm Share Arrival

A week behind!!

Last week we received a great Farm Share box: beautiful rainbow Swiss chard, radishes, chives, two heads of baby bok choy, Boston lettuce, grape tomatoes, and blueberries.

I don't have pictures of how we used the produce (a testament to that laziness I was talking about earlier); we mostly ate blueberries as-is (so delicious!) and the tomatoes on salads.  The bok choy we sautéed in a stir fry and I used my previous olive and lemon Swiss chard recipe to compliment a steak one night for dinner.  We're still enjoying our chives and radishes, but I have to be honest, I missed the dark leafy lettuce greens we usually get and didn't enjoy the Boston lettuce quite as much.  Good thing we got a great head of red leaf lettuce the next week!

6/9 Farm Share Arrival

Summer has begun!  We got back in town last week just in time to pick up our most recent Farm Share box.  We got a beautiful box with some wonderful produce, including kale, arugula, easter egg radishes, grape tomatoes, blueberries, green beans, cucumber, and romaine lettuce.

Happy (healthy) eating!

5/19 Farm Share Arrival

Time for our weekly Farm Share arrival update!  This week we received: Lacinato kale, carrots, strawberries, romaine lettuce, tomatoes (yay!), a cucumber (it's hiding under the kale), apples, and Yukon potatoes. 

This is our last share of May, but stay tuned for some recipe updates!

5/12 Farm Share Arrival

Last Wednesday we received our second-to-last box of the Winter Farm Share.  Enterprise Farm distributes Farm Share boxes by season: Winter/Spring and Summer/Fall.    The Summer/Fall share is otherwise known as the "Local" share because it is supplied mostly, if not all, by MA-area farms; whereas the Winter/Spring share is known as the "East Coast" share because farms in the South (GA, NC, SC, etc.) partner with Enterprise to supply produce that otherwise would not be available in MA due to the shorter growing period here.  We will have a hiatus from our weekly deliveries for a couple weeks (we don't receive a box the last week in May and we'll be gone the first week in June), but I look forward to sharing what great produce we receive over the Summer.  What am I most looking forward to?  Tomatoes!

Last week we received carrots, grape tomatoes, turnip greens, sweet potatoes, cucumber, red leaf lettuce, beets, an onion, and fiddleheads (see below).

I have never cooked or even seen fiddleheads before, which are apparently a New England delicacy.  I'm going to try to cook them up this week, so we'll see how it goes!

We pick up our share for this week tomorrow, so I'll be posting what we receive then very soon!  In the meantime, I hope you enjoy and/or gain some inspiration from recipes we've enjoyed over the last couple weeks.

Happy (healthy) eating!

5/5 Farm Share Arrival

Great Farm Share arrival this week!  We received a head of green leaf lettuce, bok choy, tatsoi, a huge eggplant, sweet potatoes, a carton of strawberries and roma tomatoes.  My last exam is Tuesday, so I look forward to cooking this great produce in the coming week.  

Happy (healthy) eating!

4/28 Farm Share Arrival

First of all, I totally jumped the gun when I raved about Spring weather in Boston a couple weeks ago.  Since then it has been cold and rainy--so dreary for late April!  Spring?  Yeah right!  This bone-chilling weather might explain why I felt somewhat comforted to see kale and potatoes in our recent Farm Share box.  My mind and body were getting confused receiving summery produce in the dead of Winter weather!  (Okay, so I might be exaggerating a tad--but I'm still not used to, nor a fan of, the looong progression from Winter to Spring experienced by New Englanders.)

This week's box was great: another box of strawberries, more radishes, green beans (yay!), blue kale, a bag of baby spinach, four large sweet potatoes, and 2 zucchini.  

I want to let you know that I will probably be dropping off the face of my little blogging world for the next couple weeks.  Just today I had my last day of classes for the semester and now I'm gearing up for finals starting next week.  I plan to exercise some restraint and stay out of the kitchen the next couple weeks so I can focus on exams.  So, while I won't be posting many recipes for the short term, I hope to make up for lost time and post lots of good, perhaps more creative recipes thereafter.  This summer will be all about taking time to enjoy the simple things that we don't always get to during the school year!

Until next time, happy (healthy) eating!

4/21 Farm Share Arrival

I have been a bit MIA posting recipes this last week, but most of that is due to the fact that our Farm Share produce has been consumed without much cooking needed.  And we were out of town last weekend, so cooking that usually takes place over the weekend didn't happen.  Anyway, I digress, because I want to now share a GREAT Farm Share arrival this week.

Today we received apples, radishes, red leaf lettuce, TWO boxes of strawberries (!), a huge bunch of carrots (which I was really excited about--our last batch was so good, I was hoping we would get more soon), potatoes, mesclun green mix, and a big eggplant.

Beautiful!