Eggplant
Basil
Melon
Peppers
Greens
Radishes
+ the peppers Janice got last week and gave back
It's already the penultimate week! I'm starting to realize how spoiled I've gotten on the farm fresh veg, and how challenging it will be to shop in the grocery produce section again for more than onions and bananas. But let's focus on the present. I breaded the eggplant for a kind of parmigiana, it got a little greasy but tasted ok. As much as I would have liked to try something different, this is a busy week, so I used the radishes on sandwiches to bring to work for lunch. Most of the peppers have joined their brethren in the freezer. I'm still planning on making a hot sauce out of a bunch of them.
And speaking of peppers, I had a yummy stuffed pepper with goat cheese at Tasca Brava in Raleigh over the weekend. It's a Spanish restaurant, authentic down to the sloooow service. It's hard to get upset though, when the animated server is giving out passionate dissertations on the wine list, the agricultural regions of spain, and the proper way to eat Padron peppers to everyone in earshot. Yup, the diabolical peppers from a couple weeks ago. We ordered some for the table, and he started explaining how they are "Spanish roulette" because you can't always tell the hot ones until it's too late. I mentioned the one that set my ears ringing the other day. "Oh, where did you have them?" I replied that they were grown here - "No, these only grow in one place in the Universe." I did not argue that they'll grow wherever they are planted, but I'll admit the imported Spanish peppers looked much smaller and darker than the NC version. Curiosity won in the end and I ate several of them, all mercifully mild.
Mrs. Leah K. will be visiting this weekend (shoutout!) just in time to taste the last of the fresh veggies. I'm pretty sure we're gonna "eat till we bust" so I'll let you know what was worth having.
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