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July 11, 2005

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Weather has made some of our harvesting a little unpredictable the past couple of weeks. The wet weather has diminished some of our berries, resulting in a lot of what I call "jam" berries. These berries need to eaten, frozen or made into jam right away. We are not comfortable selling them, as our customers expect well formed berries that will last a couple of days. These berries aren't pretty but they are tasty. As CSA customers, we will give you these berries for free if you come pick them up at the farm. Let me know if you are interested and I will let you know the next time I have "jam" berries.

This week, everyone will be receiving butterhead lettuce. These softer leaved lettuces are great for making lettuce wraps. Place your choice of spreads, lunch meats, cheese and/or sliced vegetables on the leaf and roll! Kids often like the finger food aspect of it. Lettuce wraps can be quick snacks or lunches or like our Asian Lettuce Wraps a main dish.

Sugar Snap Peas are back and look great. Although many people enjoy eating them raw, they are delicious roasted. Toss them with a bit of olive oil and then broil them on a single layer pan until they begin to brown in spots. Turn and cook the other side. You can toss them with a little sea salt and you have green "french fries" for the kids or sprinkle them with parmesan cheese and return them to the broiler for another minute. Mmmmmm

We have Walla Walla Sweet type salad onions this week. These sweet onions are good raw or cooked and you can use the bulbs and greens. Enjoy the onions, radishes and peas in this lemony saute.

Small shares:
1/2# salad mix, 1 head red or green butterhead lettuce, 1 bunch salad onions, 1/2pt raspberries, 3/4# sugar snap peas, 1 small broccoli and 1 bunch radish.

Medium Shares:
All of the above plus spinach and more salad mix, peas, raspberries and broccoli.

Large Shares:
Same as a medium plus strawberries and red kale and additional quantities of salad mix, onions, radishes and broccoli.

Posted by Christine at July 11, 2005 08:35 AM

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The snap peas are the best. We had company over and they couldn't stop raving about them.The kids couldn't get enough of them. They are so sweet and yummy. No wonder they are my favorites!!

Posted by: Christine at June 6, 2006 01:49 PM

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