Only three more pick ups to go! This summer went by SO SO fast!
I'm going to put a blank survey/evaluation in your basket this week - if you get a chance, please fill it out as best you can - the feedback really helps me in planning and prepping for next season. It is a general CSA form, so some questions may not pertain exactly to this particular CSA, but any insights / thoughts you'd like to share on any aspect of CSAs would be appreciated! (I guess I should set up some sort of online survey soon ... but if you could fill this out the old fashioned way and put it in the envelope and bring it back one of the next pick ups, that would be great!)
The summer vegetables continue and the fall vegetables start to come in ... more tomatoes and peppers some new varieties like little red zebra tomatoes and red anaheim mild chilis ... Here's a tasty recipe using some of those peppers:
Pepper Steak
1 lb flank steak, cut crosswise into thin slices
3 tbsp sherry or white wine
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp corn starch
1/2 tsp salt
3 tbsp peanut oil
2 green peppers, cut into slices or bite-sized squares
1 red pepper, cut into slices or bite-sized squares
1 onion, cut into slices or bite-sized squares
1 clove of garlic, finely chopped or minced.
In a medium bowl, mix wine, soy sauce, corn starch, and salt; marinate steak in this mixture at least 1o minutes but up to 2 days.
Heat large saute pan or wok, add oil and heat until oil is shimmering but not smoking. Then add steak and cook a bit and add the vegetables. You want the steak fully cooked, and the vegetables cooked but crisp.
Great new Source for Local, Grassfed Beef! I just bought some grassfed beef from Maple Terrace Farm, 3 minutes from my house on Route 94 in Warwick. It was great and very nice people too!
In your basket will also be some long scallions - they are Ishikuri Onions, a perennial Japanese heirloom. You can use them like any other scallion or green onion. We may also have leeks this week as well as some other varieties of fingerling potatoes.
In the bags will be arugula - a variety called sylvetta or wild Italian. There are also peaches as the fruit and shitake mushrooms.
AND PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO BRING YOUR BASKETS BACK!
