In Your Share This Week
Lettuce – Plato II (romaine), Magenta or Red Sails
Sweet Peppers, Stocky Red Roaster plus Healthy or Antohi Romanian
Mustard Greens, Vivid Choi – Another mustard green, not quite as mild as last weeks. Great for stir-fries and soup; even in spaghetti sauce! Also goes well with sesame oil and toasted sesame seeds.
Kohlrabi, Superschmelz – Sweet & tender, even at this size! Grate raw into salads or slaw, steam, stir fry, or pickle it. My favorite way to eat it is RAW. Cut into sticks and have with your favorite dip. Round slices can hold tuna or chicken salad, slices of cheese. Grate raw onto sandwiches for crunch.
Tomatoes – Yellow Taxi, Stupice & Glacier; Amish Paste, Orange Banana & San Marzano
Hot Peppers, Jalapeno, Bulgarian Carrot or Fish
Onions, Clear Dawn – the last of our little onions.
Beets, Touchstone Gold – a Great Golden beet. After having almost given up on gold beets because the germination was so low, somebody worked this variety and improved it immensely while keeping it open pollinated. The vibrant color stays when cooked, it’s sweet and more mild than red beets. Grate it into salads, parboil and mash it into soups and stews, or slice it up and sauté it for a side dish that looks as good as it tastes! Use the leaves like chard.
Chives – Just a little for garnish for the beet soup recipe.
Eggplant, Diamond – Our workhorse eggplant; a lovely open-pollinated we discovered a few years ago.
Melon – Petit Gris (orange flesh), Rocky Ford (green flesh) or Crane (orange flesh)
Fall Squash: Gill’s Golden Pippin – Developed by the Gill Brothers seed company of east Portland, the rich golden, acorn-type fruits have a sweet, almost nutty, flavor. It was prominently featured in their 1960 catalog. Edward & Ray started out as truck farmers, but in 1914 they switched from marketing to the seed business. They had their own trial grounds, production fields and breeding programs. We grow a number of Gill Brothers originals for their regional adaptation and flavor.