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

[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.