October 15th, 2008 by Margie

Dear Vegetable Husband customer,

If you are like me, you have had a week of amazing salads.  This week since the temperatures are getting a little cooler, we have cooking greens and lettuce in our baskets.  For you salad fans, there are many weeks of salad greens left ahead of us.  Next week, we will be able to harvest more of the baby salad greens.

We are still able to harvest sweet and hot peppers this week and some of you requested information on drying or canning hot peppers.  I dried my cayenne peppers and I am chopping them up to store for the winter now.  Please let me know if anyone would like to have more of something like this to put away.

The beans you have this week are from our friends at the Scharko farm.  They were able to share with us what was growing in the mid-week.  Enjoy these delicate beans.  I tested them this morning – yum!  There is a small pomegranite in each basket and these were a gift from the Whippoorwill Hollow Farm.  They might be too small to be prime so I apologize if someone gets a bad one but I have reserved many for the next season.

We are also lucky to have some wonderful bok choy this week and I am loading several recipes this week for you on the website, one of which will be an easy bok choy recipe.  You might not recognize one of the greens.  That is your bag of broccoli leaves from the Mills Farm.  This is a great choice for from the fields that you will rarely see in the stores.  Enjoy your basket of Georgia nourishment.  Below is the list of your goodies for this week:

sweet peppers
hot pepper
broccoli greens
okra
romaine lettuce
butternut squash
apples
bok choy
blue lake snap beans
pomegranite

Do not hesitate to call or e-mail with any questions you have.  Remember, I am happy to talk FOOD!

Namaste,

Margie Thorpe