No, really, now we're really hitting summer's stride. CSA box #5 from Tagge's Famous Fruit and Veggie Farms (which, total kudos for putting an easement on their farmland to protect it from the rampant development that infects Utah - for that commitment alone I will continue to sign up for their CSA subscriptions) really feels like summer ... although if I'm honest, with the heat and the wildfires, we're sort of ready for fall (although if I'm honest, I'm already sad that the days are getting shorter)). We got corn, green beans, carrots, two different kinds of cucumbers, a zucchini and a summer squash, tomatoes, two kinds of peaches and a watermelon.
Per usual, we ate the corn and beans immediately. The watermelon was not nearly as good as the last one so I cubed it and froze it and we blended it with tequila for margaritas. Some of the cucumbers got quick-pickled, along with the skinnier carrots. The tomatoes, some of the cucumbers and the peaches got taken to work for lunches (if I'm honest, I don't love these donut peaches so much - I find them much less flavorful than the regular kind). The heftier carrots got diced and put into a batch of lentils, along with some onion - not soup, just lentils to put on rice as an alternative to black beans which we've been eating a lot of recently. It's been WAY too hot to turn the oven on so beans (of all kinds) have been our primary protein lately.
And, if I'm honest, I took three cucumbers, the zucchini and the summer squash in to work, leaving them in the breakroom for folks to take. They all got claimed but the summer squash got claimed FIRST, which I find baffling - that is for sure my least favorite squash. Blessings on the person who took it home.
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