Reached my weird food LIMIT!!!

[sarahmichigan]

Yes, I know there are three exclamation points up there.

I am mostly enjoying our farm share, but the one downside is that they give you what is ripe on the farm and what they've chosen to plant that year and not necessarily what you like best. This has been great in many ways. I've gotten to know more about and mostly like a variety of veggies from kohlrabi to beets to napa cabbage and patty pan squash.

But last week's delivery was one little step too far. First of all, they gave me more corn than I could realistically eat in one week, especially since J. is not as much of a corn on the cob fanatic as I am. This was OK, because I gave some away to relatives during a family get-together.

But the straws that broke the camel's back were ground cherries and wheat-free beet cookies. I think I'm a good sport, but this was too much. I was all like, "Why couldn't they just give me some f*cking broccoli for godssake!"

Apparently, the farm we're getting our share from sells produce to a woman who does flour-free baked goods, and in return, the baker gives some of her goodies to the farm to distribute with the CSA baskets. They were oat-based, sweetened with raw beets. The texture was weird and the taste was really odd- it was sweet and spicy but with that earthy dirt-like taste that beets have. I also don't think white flour is Satan like some people, either, and the "white flour is the glue of the gut!"rhetoric that came with the cookies was a turn-off as well.

As for ground cherries- there's only ever been two veggies (green olives and lima beans) that I've found that I don't like, and I've never found a fruit I don't like. Until now. Ground cherries are just weird. I can't abide them raw and plain and haven't figured out what to put them in to make them palatable.

Ah well, new shipment of veggies this Thursday. Maybe there'll be broccoli...

And, tonight, I attempt eggplant parmesan for the first time!

Comments

[aiela.livejournal.com]

The CSA I want to join actually comes down to the Royal Oak Farmers Market on Saturdays and lets you pick a container of whatever you want each week. While this would probably not lead to me trying new things as much as I should, it also means I won't get stuck with a ton of things no one will eat, either.

(And of course I still can't get my butt up on Saturdays to GO, so I won't let myself buy a share. Maybe next summer.)

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

I mostly like that they're forcing me to try new stuff. It was just this one week where it was a bit much. :) I do like the idea of being able to pick out your faves, though!

[jojomojo.livejournal.com]

I've never tried them, but reading the description, would some kind of fruity salsa (for something like jerk fish or whatever) work?

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

That's a good suggestion- I have some fish I want to make up, and that'd probably work really well.

[razzle.livejournal.com]

Okay, I love beets, so I'd try those cookies once, but... yeah. I'd have to say enough is enough!

[beshter.livejournal.com]

I don't want to know what a ground cherry is.

When we get too much corn, I usually just cut it from the ear and freeze it. It freezes just like normal corn, and you can use it in the winter or whatever.

Mmmm....eggplant....

[meecie.livejournal.com]

haha, my reaction to the ground cherries wasn't as strong as yours was, but I still haven't eaten them all. :)

(http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/ground_cherry.htm, for those, like me, who hadn't seen them before)

[lorigrrl.livejournal.com]

I actually had to look up ground cherries. I'd never heard of them. I've seen them, I just thought they were wild inedible berries. how odd. Good luck with your eggplant. I can never get eggplant to turn out right.

[lorigrrl.livejournal.com]

okay or maybe ground cherries are bigger than i thought they were from the first picture i was basing my judgement on... which leaves me wondering about ground cherries and whatever strange yellow berries my mom used to tell me not to eat.

[purple-marf.livejournal.com]

I'm always keeping an eye out for good wheat-free stuff for the couple of (very) gluten-intolerant people I know. But I find too much rhetoric makes food bitter. ;)

[lilpeace.livejournal.com]

I like to mix leftover corn into pancakes or cornbread or make corn pudding. Yum! Or just blanch and freeze!

Never tried ground cherries...that's cool that your CSA gives you unique things. I've been somewhat disappointed with the lack of...new things to try...in our CSA share (Down on the Farm CSA).

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is cool- I don't want to give the impression that I'm not enjoying the CSA, because I am. I really like that I've been challenged to try new things and find new recipes. Sometimes, the same-old-same-old is comforting, though. :)

I'm going to blanch and freeze the corn I got this week if we can't eat it up. We may bring some to a Labor Day bbq, and that would use some of it up, too!