responsible consumer on a budget
I love Tuesdays. Once, when I was a teenager, some friends and I went out and bought a giant cookie-cake and had them write on it “Happy Tuesday”, just for the heck of it. We did it on a Wednesday. It was a hit. I might have to make that a tradition, except now I’d probably bake the cookie-cake myself.
This has nothing to do with cookies or cake, however. Tuesday is my CSA pick-up day.
Here’s what I got:
So Tuesday night, between going to the farm, finishing a John Scalzi novel, and writing yesterday morning’s CSA post, I managed to can 8½ quarts of tomato puree that I did in the Squeezo on Saturday.
This is about 1/3 of them.
I’d rather have canned these the same day I puréed them, but when you’re busy you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do. I puréed my tomatoes on Saturday, about 35-40 pounds of them, which came out to about 12 quarts. then stuck them in the fridge. I kept some aside to make tomato soup [Read More…]
There are only five weeks left for this year’s CSA season for me, and with winter coming up I’ll be preserving everything I can. This week’s box isn’t a huge haul (like I got Saturday at the farmers’ market), but it’s all good stuff:
I think I went overboard.
That’s all the stuff I got this morning at the Ferguson Farmers’ Market. It’s a LOT! The pumpkin is definitely the heaviest item, and I’m assured that when it’s done being a decoration on my front porch it will still be sweet, delicious, and excellent for eating. [Read More…]
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