Wicked nice variety in this week's box - bravo, Tagge's! We got two cartons of raspberries, a couple of corns, green beans, green peppers, shishito peppers, peaches, tomatoes, pluots, nectarines, onions, a cucumber and, for squashes: zucchini, summer and a pattypan.
As we do, we had the corn and half of the green beans the first night. I must say, both veggies are past their prime by September: the corn was a bit starchy and the beans were tough. I think I may blanch the rest of the beans and stick them in the freezer for soups. We had onion, pepper and the pattypan squash in a chickpea curry; put the very delicate and squishy raspberries in our oatmeal; had more peppers and onions with vegan sausages; gave away the zucchini, cucumber and summer squash*; and ate a bunch of stonefruits just as soon as they ripened. The massive amount of plums from last week are just getting ripe now and their flesh is the most amazing, vibrant purple-red I've ever seen. I am planning to turn most of them into a cinnamon-plum sauce (for desserts and oatmeal) to freeze because try as we might, we will never be able to eat all of them in time.
* And I don't even feel guilty about it. We have so much shredded squash in the freezer - I ate 1.5 cups in my morning green smoothies this week.
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