Kate's Week 8! Potatoes & Peaches

 Here's our week 9 bag just a wee bit late. As you can see we've got lots of onion and potatoes with an acorn squash thrown in there, so what'd we make? A veggie saute with a bunch of different stuff included. It was delicious as side dishes to our black bean burgers.

Potatoes are one of my all-time favorite veggies, so I'll probably be eating them in a multitude of ways. I'm really looking forward to some mashed potatoes. So simple, but so tasty too. 

We finished off the night with a peach crisp of sorts. It was made with oatmeal and agave syrup instead of sugar, so tasted a bit different, but man, once those peaches get baked, they sure are good. Nice and juicy.

I have a feeling I'll be eating more of it with a dollop of vanilla ice cream on top. 

-Kate

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

Kate's week 4

Ok weather, you are seriously messing with my CSA vibe. But! check out the newest product in the CSA bags....flour: Ceresota flour from Newton, KS. Oh dear, what am I going to do with you? Maybe cookies? Maybe blueberry muffins? Recipes here: http://www.heckersceresota.com/recipes.html.

Got the roast, think it is going to be a Sunday dinner with the fam. Pot Roast dinner on Sundays is something my mom's family used to do when she was little, and we haven't eaten red meat in quite a while, but we've got it, so might as well enjoy the goodness.

Trying a new Good Natured Family Farm cheese: Cheddar Pepper. I am not a fan of spicy stuff, so we'll see if this pepper cheese is hot red peppery or...well normal black peppery. Honestly not a fan either way, but no judgment on the cheese until I try it. Cheese has a mysterious way of winning me over. I'll report back.

As for the blueberries and squash....they'll get eaten swiftly. The milk? Probably already gone.

-Kate