This past week’s share is looking decidedly fall-like, right on time. The share includes cabbage, broccoli (lots!), red head lettuce, parsley, carrots, radishes, bulb fennel, tomatoes, rutabaga, peppers and onions. The fennel is the only kindof wierd thing in the share this week. I have to admit to not having a lot of experience with it. Last year was the first time I grew it. All we’ve done with it so far is to have it raw in a lettuce-free salad with various other things (mandarin orages and juice, olive oil, salt, vinegar, etc.) I love the taste of it even just on it’s own. Last winter we used the rutabaga raw too, grated in salads. We tried that this week but we’re finding the flavour too strong this way. Who knows, maybe due to different growing conditions. We threw some in a soup and made rutabaga cake (carrot cake recipe with rutabaga instead of carrots). That worked out quite well.
A couple weeks ago I was contacted by Glenn from the Ottawa Marmitons. They are a men’s cooking and social club. They were looking for heirloom tomatoes for their upcoming event. Glenn came out and helped me pick out a selection of what I had available then. He timed it nicely as there was a selection of all varieties and colours still available. This week things are down to a very meagre few tomatoes and they’ll probably be entirely done by next week with the exception of the few plants in the greenhouse. The tomatoes were used in an appetizer and apparently they worked quite nicely! I’m glad they went to a very appreciative group. Here are some pictures from the event:
Mix of cherry tomatoes (mostly not strictly heirloom):
Red Beefsteaks (Rose, Brandywine, Cosmonot Volkov, others)
Yellow (garden peach)
Green (Green Zebra)
And the final resulting appetizer:
