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  • Week 19 Unboxing

    This week’s contents: A whiff of autumn air and more root vegetables, happy September! After eating the Week 18 peppers, I am confident that the red peppers were Red Carmen Italian Peppers and the green peppers were Cubanelle peppers. This week’s banana peppers are similarly versatile, mild peppers, good for cooking, topping, pickling, or stuffing.…

  • Eating eggplant

    Basil eggplant stir fry with the Ping Tung eggplant from Week 17.

  • Week 18 Unboxing

    This week’s contents: Guessing the green peppers are the Cubanelle peppers and the red peppers are the Red Carmen Italian Peppers. Fortunately they are similar, lightly sweet, non-spicy peppers so if I’m wrong, no recipes will suffer immensely from the mix up. These teeny Thumbelina carrots look like tater tots! Tempted to turn them into…

  • Week 17 Unboxing

     Cpntents of this week: These long eggplants are great for Basil Eggplant Stir Fry. Carrot tops can be chopped up for sauces like carrot top pesto or carrot top chimichurri.

  • Week 16 Unboxing

    The rainbow contents of this week’s Medium share: This box with yellow squash, eggplant, tomato, and garlic, looks like a set up for ratatouille (French stew). For the movie-version, use a recipe for confit bayaldi instead. I’ve been grilling this summer’s Italian eggplants outside. The cooked flesh fits in a smaller space in the fridge…

  • Week 15 Unboxing

    Here are the contents of my Medium share box this week: Greens are back in force this week. Green dandelion has some bitterness and benefits from cooking, either a good saute or a quick blanch. I might throw it into some soup, like this minestrone recipe that also suggests zucchini or other summer squash that…