Sunday Randomness #110: State Fair Food Offerings Part 4 of 6

Hawaiian Teriyaki

Sugar Barn

Boba King

Raspados del Sur

Roasted Corn

Lemonade

 

Sunday Randomness #275: Bringing puzzles back into our lives Early June sees puzzles 13, 14, and 15

A 300 piece Dowdle puzzle, "Pet shop"
 

A 300 piece TrendZ puzzle, Organic Farmer's Market

A 550 piece Ceaco puzzle, "Selfies"

Sunday Randomness #204 : CSA shares from Borski Farms Part 5 (Last shares)

Popcorn, leeks, dried salsa mix, dried peppers, squash, apples, potatoes, tomatoes, onions, and a pie pumpkin! First share was July 1st, last share was 15 weeks later on October 7th.

We missed a share due to surgery and we ended up donating the items to my co-workers.  It contained: 

Red and Gold potatoes

Red onions

Bartlett pears

Winter squash

 

http://www.borskifarms.org/markets.html

Sunday Randomness #204 : CSA shares from Borski Farms Part 4

Over halfway through the season with weeks ten through twelve with carrots, apples, squash, corn, tomatoes, onions, peppers, purple potatoes, pears, cucumber, and acorn squash.

 http://www.borskifarms.org/

Sunday Randomness #204 : CSA shares from Borski Farms Part 3

More hot peppers, onions, peaches, tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, yellow watermelon, swiss chard, beans, melon, potatoes, and greens came our way for weeks seven through nine.

 http://www.borskifarms.org/

Sunday Randomness #204 : CSA shares from Borski Farms Part 2

Weeks four through six saw green beans, heirloom beets, cucumbers, peppers, blackberries, more garlic and corn, potatoes, apricots, shitake mushrooms, cantaloupe, and more.

http://www.borskifarms.org/
 

Sunday Randomness #204 : CSA shares from Borski Farms Part 1

We participated in a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) with some co-workers this growing season.  Fifteen shares-starting July 1, 2020 and ending with the last share on Oct, 7, 2020. 

We received things such as micro greens, anasazi beans, garlic, rainbow carrots, apricots, cherries, kale, corn, local cheese, peppers, squash, beets, and salad greens in the first three weeks.  

http://www.borskifarms.org/
 

Sunday Randomness #123: Trying some exotic new fruit

Wrinkly exotic fruit. Oval purple passion fruit on the left, oblong star shaped starfruit on the right.And this is how they appear when you cut them up.  The starfruit have hard seeds in the middle like an apple that we did not eat. We thought it had a slight pear taste and was crunchy like an apple.  The passion fruit has a unique taste all its own-slightly like perfume with a tangy bite.  You eat the seeds and that yellow pulp around the seeds and the juice is delicious.  The seeds are crunchy and great as a topping.  Surprisingly, passion fruit seeds are high in dietary fiber and they also have a fairly med-high phosphorus content.  And yes, this is what a ripe passion fruit should look like-wrinkled outer skin with the pulp and seeds coming away from the bitter rind on the inside.

Bountiful Baskets January 2013

 Bountiful Baskets $15 for 8 oranges, 4 bananas, 1 asian pear, 1 avocado, 6 fuji apples, 4 multicolored carrots (one was rotten), 5 orblanco (one was an extra for Mica for volunteering with me), 1 box grape tomatoes (some not quite ripe), 1 box strawberries, a bag of Brussels sprouts (which we roasted with olive oil, salt and pepper-mmmmm.......), 2 bunches of celery (one was an extra for me for volunteering) and a whole bunch of mild small peppers.

 Lunch box pack for $10.50 with 3 asian pears, 3 granny smith apples, 5 fuji apples, 7 oranges, 2 pomegranates, and 5 red sensation pears.

12 pounds of raw, unpasteurized honey from Utah (and Idaho?) for $34 in a beautiful glass jar. That works out to about $2.83 a pound.  (One bottle was bought by friends-I just picked it up for them.)  We looked up the latest price on honey from the national honey board at: http://www.honey.com/honey-industry/honey-industry-statistics/unit-honey-prices-by-month-retail and the current national price per pound for pasteurized honey is $5.67 for January 2013.  Raw honey is usually more expensive than pasteurized honey and even a quick search shows that other Utah honeys are selling for about 4.45 a pound up to $8.00 and more a pound.  I'll have to post again when we try the honey.

Bountiful Baskets December 2012

Total of $15 and we received multicolored carrots, Fuji apples, a personal watermelon, a cantaloupe, bananas, Roma tomatoes, a papaya, broccoli, romaine lettuce, mushrooms and very, very ripe persimmons.

Bountiful Baskets September

Bountiful baskets share for $15: 4 corn, 2 heads green leaf lettuce, 5 lb. bag red potatoes, 4 tomatoes, 7 peppers, 3 grapefruit, 7 plums, 5 pears, 1 bag black seedless grapes, 2 avocados, 6 limes and we got an extra bag of potatoes for volunteering.

Fajita pack for $5: 3 green peppers, 3 red peppers, 2 yellow onions, 1 head garlic, about 1/2 dozen assorted dried hot peppers.    Tortilla pack for $10.50: 3 dozen large flour tortillas, 2 dozen small flour tortillas and 2 dozen small corn tortillas.

Orders are taken starting Monday at 10:00 a.m.  Go to www.bountifulbaskets.org for more information.

Summer Fruit Tarts

Daisy made a Fourth of July Tart with raspberries and blackberries almost entirely by herself.   I helped a little with baking the crust.  We used PanNan's recipe at:  http://www.food.com/recipe/fresh-summer-fruit-tart-122364

This assorted fruit tart we bought from a local bakery.  Verdict?  They were both delicious and we would buy the local bakery tart again and we would make the homemade version again but Daisy's homemade tart did edge out the local bakery.  Maybe it was the brown sugar in the homemade crust or the difference in the fillings but the local bakery tart lasted about three days and Daisy's tart didn't even last one day before it was finished off.  Plus I loved the design on Daisy's tart.

Bountiful Baskets July

 Plum variety pack-this was one box worth of plums for $13.50

 Rainier Cherries 18 lb box for $22.50!  (Just saw Rainier cherries at a grocery store for $6.99 a lb.)

Share for $15 with two summer squash, 6 plums, 1 box raspberries (I got an extra box for volunteering), 1 box strawberries, 2 pkg. carrots, 1 cucumber, 1 bag green grapes, 1 large bunch broccoli, 4 red corn, 1 cantaloupe, and 1 head of living butter lettuce

Order every Monday, pick up on Saturday.  www.bountifulbaskets.org

May Bountiful Basket

May Bountiful Basket $15 got us onions, cucumbers, corn, honeydew, cauliflower, carrots, apricots, green peppers, tomatoes, pears, lemons, bananas and blackberries.

Bountiful Baskets again in March

(This is a late post-we got this order over a month ago-I just haven't posted in awhile except for posts that were already scheduled.)  Bountiful Baskets $15 share with pears, asparagus, beans, tomatoes, cauliflower, green onions, Granny Smith apples, pineapple, bananas, romaine lettuce and a melon.

 Mexican pack $8.50 contained tomatillos, key limes, many peppers, onions, garlic, avocados, onions and cliantro.  (Made homemade guacamole with a recipe Hedgehog got from a school activity.)

Tortilla pack  $10.50 had 3 dozen of the 12-inch flour tortillas, 2 dozen of the 6-inch flour tortillas and 2 dozen of the 6-inch corn tortillas.  These were fantastic!  We went through the 2 dozen corn tortillas in a couple of days.  I did freeze some of the flour tortillas for future use.  They are cooked but only lightly so they warm up quickly-kind of like brown and serve rolls only with tortillas.

Bountiful Baskets in December of 2011

For $15 we received 2 heads of butter lettuce, 2 orange carrots, 3 yellow carrots, 3 oroblanco grapefruit hybrids, 1 personal size watermelon, 6 corn, 1 bag red seedless grapes, 1 5-lb. bag butter gold potatoes, 1 bunch celery, 3 avocados, 5 small pears, and 6 bananas. We got an extra carrot and an extra lettuce (included in the picture and the count) for being volunteers and helping to unload the truck and sort the food into baskets.
We also bought the hostess pack for an additional $15 which contained 1 10-lb bag russet potatoes, 3 lemons, 1 bunch rosemary, 1 bunch cilantro, 2 parsnips, some chestnuts, 1 bunch romaine lettuce, 1 small pineapple, 2 yellow onions, 11 tangelos, 6 small sweet potatoes, and 1 bunch sage. In addition, we also paid $10 for a winter squash pack (not pictured) with 3 butternut, a turban, 2 acorn and 1 spaghetti squash.

Once every month or two seems to be good spacing between orders and gives us adequate time to consume most of the items we've received in our basket. I have to say, I was quite pleased and surprised with the variety in the hostess pack-that's one we'll look for in the future.

Bountiful Baskets October

$15 netted us 2 pomegranates, 2-lb. bag carrots, a bag of red grapes, 5 limes, 7 plums, 4 red peppers, a head of green leaf lettuce, 7 bananas, 2 broccoli crowns, 4 asian apples, 3 gala apples, 6 pears and 6 ears of corn. Find out more info at www.bountifulbaskets.org

We also ordered a case of pomegranates. We'll have to post later on how well they store but in the meantime we've already eaten a number of them and shared some with friends.

Everything was pretty good except the pears were brown inside which is a sign of being held at too-low of a temperature for too long. Pears are notoriously susceptible to breakdown of the fruit once they are ripe and they can't handle any rough handling or too much cold once that happens. When they are still hard they can handle more but not once they are ripe.
Also, the plums were a bit stubborn in ripening. Otherwise the rest was rapidly consumed.

Thank you to Dr. Jerry Parsons for confirmation of my suspicions that the pears had suffered from the cold. His article on Pears and Pear Preservation can be found at: http://bexar-tx.tamu.edu/HomeHort/F1Column/2005%20Articles/AUG28.htm

Bountiful Baskets September

Fifteen dollars for a bag of green beans, a container of figs (they were very good!), 8 pears, a bag of California seedless green grapes from a small independent grower (these are the grapes of my childhood-sweet and full of flavor-not the water filled globules that pass for grapes these days), 5 peaches, 6 bananas, 1 bunch spinach, 1 head cauliflower (I was going to cook some but we ended up eating it all in raw form before I had the chance to cook any), 1 bunch romaine lettuce, and 5 small sweet potatoes that we roasted in the oven like baked potatoes. Just slip of the skins after baking and mash and enjoy with their natural sugars!

Bountiful Baskets and a Poodle

Bountiful Baskets for Saturday August 20, 2011. For $15 we received 4 corn, 1 pkg. strawberries, 4 roma tomatoes, 8 peaches, 1 cantaloupe, 1 bunch broccoli, 1 bag black seedless grapes (they were soooo good!), 10 plums, 1 bag carrots, 1 head romaine lettuce, and 8 bananas.

In addition, we bought the plummy paradise sampler pack for $10.50 for about 12 pounds of 10 different kinds of plums. Although there was a list of possible varieties on the side of the box we don't have enough expertise to match up the different kinds. We made guesses but all agreed that they were delicious. The more reddish and orange plums were the favorites but it's no wonder they aren't sold in stores. They are sweeter, taste better, have some unique flavors not found in general store plums but, they were also more delicate and bruised easier than the tougher purple/black plum varieties. If they offer the plums again we would gladly buy more.

And finally, we've had a poodle visit occasionally from my parents home. He's masquerading as a new kind of sheep-dog. When his fur grows long it helps him stay outside longer as the weather gets cooler. Once the snow starts he has to spend more time indoors because the ice just forms into icicles around his muzzle and paws. He enjoys playing games outside and we like him to be outside for at least part of his visiting time.

By the way, all three pictures were taken with the camera that is now broken. It was accidentally dropped on a rock at camp from a tripping adventure. It broke the lcd? screen so you can't see anything on the viewing screen (it just looks like there's a big gray crack going through the screen but only internally-there's no sharp edges or any damage you can feel on the outside) and there's no picture image, no changing of features such as flash or zoom or any camera features. It's like an old point and shoot. We have no idea what pictures we have until they are downloaded onto the computer. It's actually been kind of fun and the pictures have turned out amazingly well for the most part.

Food Rules

Bountiful Baskets share from a few weeks ago.

Just have to share this link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/10/11/magazine/20091011-foodrules.html

Tab through these rules-most of us wouldn't be hurt at all by following most of these rules.

And I really like Michael Pollan's food rule about junk food. You can eat all the junk food you want as long as you make it.