July 7th, 2010 by Margie

Dear Vegetable Husband Customer,

First of all, this Saturday is my birthday and I have to tell you how happy I am to look back on this year and look to the future of next year WITH YOU and all of our farmers!  I may not have much that the bank can count but I have such a rich life and I cherish our community of folks that care.  Thanks for trusting me to do such an important job for all of us!  I hope you had a great holiday last weekend – I will have another one this weekend.

The tomatoes are starting to really come in and we have a variety of heirloom slicers this week.  These tomatoes are from Serenbe Farms.  They also harvested the first eggplant of the season for us today.  Let me know what you think.  There are several recipes on the website to help you with preparing eggplant, but I will certainly add more as the summer continues.  This week’s new recipe is for carrot greens pesto.  Tonia and I were talking about how tasty this pesto is, made from what most of us discard so take a look at it and see if it sounds like something for you.

Last week I really missed having some sort of green in my diet so I found some arugula for us this week from the guys at Neva Farms.  Greens will be tough to find in the heat of the summer so enjoy them when we get them and settle into summer veggies like our tomatoes, eggplant and squash this week.  I am thinking squash and green onion quesadilla for supper tonight!  Quick, easy and super tasty – my kind of meal!  Below is your list of goodies for this week:

Eggplant

Rainbow carrots

Tomatoes

Arugula

Green onions

Yellow squash

Basil

Blueberries

I would love to invite you to log on to our facebook site for Vegetable Husband, and let me know what your favorite recipe is that uses some of our summer food.  If you don’t want to write on the facebook site, then email us.  I will use one of your recipes for next week’s basket so let’s see what you recommend.  Of course, as always, I am always happy to TALK FOOD!  Have a great week!

All the best,
Margie Thorpe