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Handling Tips and Recipes by Crop: Arugula Beans, Snap Beans, Yellow Wax Beets Beet Greens Broccoli Cabbage Cantaloupe Carrots Cauliflower Chard, Swiss Corn, Sweet Cucumber - Refrigerator Pickles Cucumber, Slicing Endive Eggplant Garlic Greens Herbs Kale Kohlrabi Lettuce Micro Greens Mustard Okra Onions Parsnip Peas Peppers Potatoes Pumpkins Radish Rutabaga Spinach Squash, Summer - Freezing Squash, Summer - Grilling Squash, Winter Tomato Turnip Watermelon |
Tips and Recipes by Category: Appetizers Baking Breads Canning Casseroles Dehydrating Desserts Entrees Freezing Grilling Juices Roasting Salads Salsas Side Dish Soups |
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LINKS to Other Sites Tips and Recipes Great New Links that shares tips, handling, and recipes for individual veggies Betty Crocker Recipes www.whfoods.com/foods toc.php pickyourown.org/allabout canning.htm pickyourown.org simplyrecipes.com/ allrecipes.com/ www.learn2grow.com www.foodnetwork.com/in -season-now/index.html www.spinachrecipes.org/ |
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To Prepare for the Season you may want the following on hand: ~ Get a good colander, deep bowl, knives and cutting board. We pre-rinse the greens to cool them but you can give them a final rinse, or bath, in cool water to liven them up when you get them. It is good to have a deep bowl and good colander that the strainer can sit in to chill the greens especially. A sharp knife is great for cutting squash, watermelon, and dicing or slicing other veggies. ~~ Get this great Cookbook that is about cooking with the season: From Asparagus to Zucchini Also look at the list of veggies on our Recipes page and start collecting recipes ahead of time. We will try to offer some recipes in our newsletters, but it is always nice to have more to share from our members as well. Decide if you want to can some things and get on the list to get extra cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, peppers, etc as we have available. ~Some members may wish to use a reusable tote to transfer their veggies into at their drop site and leave the box with their host. We reuse our veggies boxes so we can to keep our costs lower. |
SUBMISSIONS WANTED: Have a favorite recipe you would want to share with our members? Have a special processing, canning, or freezing tip? Have a favorite story about being on a farm or in the country? We take submissions for our member pages. Email your submissions to: csa@treasuredhavenfarm.com Please type "Member Submission" and the Topic, into the Subject Line. |
| Have a favorite recipe you would want to share with our members? Have a special processing, canning, or freezing tip? We welcome submissions for our members. |
| Leaf Lettuce Tips: To keep lettuce the best we find that it is best to re-rinse the greens in cold water to get beginning to warm up sitting at the drop site... (we do a pre-rinse mostly to cool them down, so a second wash is always good). Second... spin them out in a lettuce or salad spinner, or pat lightly, or pull up the corners of a cotton dishtowel to make a type of bag or net to toss around to remove excess water. Third... we find that storing in the sealed bag we send it in works great (you can wash and reuse these... there are also some of those green produce keeper bags and containers that others say work well) or a lettuce keeper where the lettuce does not rest on the bottom in any excess water works well too. Fourth... make sure that the place you store in the frig does not get too cold... I can keep lettuce fine on my second or bottom shelf, but if I put it near the top it will get too cold and go black and slimy, It takes trial and error to know the best place within your own refrigerator. |