csa summer: twelfth and thirteenth boxes

 As we near the end of our run of farm boxes, we are definitely transitioning to late summer/fall produce.  The twelfth box had a spaghetti squash, two ears of corn, cucumbers, a red cabbage, apples, nectarines, a peach, some pears, some plums, an ivory pepper and a couple of wax peppers (which were way spicier than I expected).

Probably the last of the corn for the year

I gave away the cucumbers at work.  We ate the corn immediately (decent for the season) and the stone fruit.  The pears went into morning green smoothies.  We sauteed some of the peppers with onions for vegan sausages, and the rest of the peppers went on homemade pizzas.

That's autumnal

Box #13 had a butternut squash, a white acorn squash, onions, plums, a past-its-prime peach, lots of apples, a tomato, jalapeno peppers, a green pepper, some red potatoes and a couple of pears.  The squashes - along with the prior week's spaghetti squash - got roasted and mashed and frozen (8.5 cups!) for Milton, who looooooooves roasted winter squash.  Green pepper, onion, jalapeno peppers and some red cabbage went in a tikka masala curry; and that same combination of vegetables also went into burrito bowls (with kidney beans and fake ground beef) later in the week.  That red cabbage was DELICIOUS, by the way: sweet and not at all cabbage-y.  The tomato and fruit got snacked on.  And all the apples were cooked down into 2.5 quarts of apple pie filling for the freezer.

Never have I liked a cabbage so much