Kate's Week 7

This week's bag looks a little smaller than normal, but that's because we swapped out the bison for extra peaches & eggs. What does this mean? It means there are peaches ALL OVER THE PLACE! That's definitely not a bad thing though, because there is nothing quite like fresh peaches. 

Of course everyone think of making peach pie when peaches are in season, but there are all kinds of good things one can make with peaches. I was looking at the Bader Peach website (http://www.baderpeaches.com/recipes.php) and saw a recipe for Crockpot Peach Dump Cake & Deep Fried Peaches. Two forms of cooking peaches I have never even thought of, but with all the peaches we have, we might have to start experimenting. I'll keep you posted how it goes.

As far as those eggs go, there's nothing quite like them. Did you know there is a little "tweet" from the chickens in each carton of eggs? 

This week's says:

"Good morning! The last few days turned out to be a lot more sunny after we had around 6 inches rainfall. Yesterday we were just able to attack some weeks in our organic corn & soybean fields before it rained again! The chickens run outdoors when it is not raining. Our three children enjoy watching them & so does our dog. We made a big batch of strawberry jam yest. - our favorite! See ya later!"

- Kate

Kate's Week 5 & 6!

I'm behind on posting, but also because I'm behind on cooking. Here's what our week 5 looked like:

Hot dog! We grilled those up on the 4th of July. 

We still haven't figured out what to do with the pickling cucumbers yet. The obvious answer would be to, well, make pickles, but we're not real sure how to do that, so they might go on salads instead. 

Week 6 looked a little something like this. 

So there's a theme here. Hen House really wants us to eat blueberries. Good thing we make green smoothies every morning with the little guys. I even talked Dave into trying smoothies to use up all of his blueberries.

I'm super pumped about more cheese, because, well, I love it. We haven't had the colby yet, so even better.

The cabbage and onions are a switch up from the previous weeks, so we'll find something delectable to do with them. Seems like there might be some cabbage rolls in the near future?

I'll keep you updated.
-Kate

HLT!

I haven't really gone vegetarian, just trying to cut a bit of meat out of the diet. Plus, I didn't have any bacon. Instead, I made an HLT. You have until the end of this post to decide what the H stands for. 

I used the grains galore bread, toasted. Then added the lettuce and tomato, all from the CSA bag. You can see in the picture some of the Farmhouse cheddar sliced on the side and even the million dollar pickles. Talk about a CSA bag meal. The only component of this that wasn't in the bag was the H. Which stands for.....

Hummus. 

-Sean