• CSA Day 2013-11-12

    Last Tuesday of the CSA season… It was a full box!

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    Hakurei Turnips
    Lettuce
    Sweet Potatoes
    Beets
    a Turnip
    Bok Choy
    Spinach
    Carrots
    and a
    Napa Cabbage
    (from the ‘sharing box’)

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  • Midnight Canning

    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.

    This is about 1/3 of them.

     

    Squeezo-ing away...

     

     

     

     

     

     

    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…]