Found it!!

Here is a great recipe for fresh plums - I combined them with some peaches - it's a simple dish that can handle almost any fruit combination.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled
• 8 to 10 plums and peaches
  

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Coat a baking dish with cooking spray.
2. Place the flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl and combine. Add 3 tablespoons of the butter and combine with a pastry cutter or 2 forks until it reaches a crumble. Add the nuts.
3. Place the plums in the dish and top with the crumble. Dot with the remaining butter. Bake about 1 hour or until golden.

keeping up - weeks 9 and 10

Here we are, almost ready for another pick up and since we have been traveling off and on for the past two weeks, and are about to leave for yet another mini vacation, I am finding it hard to get through everything we have. Using my old standards, I have made countless plates of tomatoes with mozzerella and basil and roasted potatoes with onions and garlic.

I tried to grill the watermelon, cutting slices about an inch and a half think, brushing with olive oil and chopped onion. Interesting, not sure I would do it again though. Seriously, it tastes so much better just cold and juicy.

The plums are still in the fridge - gotta figure something out today - any ideas????

Week 9 - Choices, Choices

One of the things I like about the CSA is the ability to choose. If you don't care for an item, you can always switch it out for something more palatable. This week, a choice was one of our items - there were so many wonderful things, it took me awhile to figure it out. There were many greens, as well as cucumbers and juices I hadn't yet tried. I ended up with some string beans (Ariana's favorite) and a couple of lovely looking tomatoes.

As I write this, the corn is already gone. Two nights in a row - can't get enough!! This week's corn was a bit sweeter than last weeks, with larger kernels. Arny has been grilling it outside with the husk on - we love the taste and it is so much easier to shuck. The silk comes off right away and the leaves make a great holder.

One thing I've noticed about the potatoes we've been getting- the skins are so thin, delicate like fine paper. I wouldn't dare peel them (I rarely do that anyway), but rather enjoy the texture in whatever I end up making. To the cookbooks I go.....

Yummy Yummy Corn - the forgotten post

Not quite sure what happened last week - I wrote this out and then never posted it. This is what I get for leaving the computer in the middle of a post. In any event, here you go:

What can be better than fresh picked corn? We already devoured 3 ears last night and will finish them off this evening.

Fresh plums - small tasty little things. I found so many recipes, it will be hard to decide what to make, other than knowing it will definitely be dessert. (Turned out to be a plum and peach crumble - delicious!!)

Purslane is a new item for me - when I looked online, I found several articles on edible gardening, mentioned purslane as the weed you want to eat!! It is very high in alpha-linolenic acid, one of the  Omega 3 acids that are so good for you. The Garden of Ideas has two recipes on their blog. both which sound like a great accompaniment to any barbecue (added it to a salad - easy, peasy).

And the corn - yum!!!