This week’s box included: lettuce, sweet potato, potato, bell peppers, okra, green beans, salad cucumber, kirby cucumbers, butternut squash, cubanelle peppers. The return of lettuce, just in time for overnight temperatures to drop to the 50s next week. And in our box, two butternut squash. These aren’t as hefty as in years past, but perhaps Read More…
This week’s box included: assortment of peppers, tomatoes, okra, delicata squash, garlic, spaghetti squash, sweet potatoes Conne’s on vacation this week — and what a beautiful weather week to be out chillaxing! In her place are a few comments on this week’s box. Check out our recipe index for storage instructions and hundreds of recipes Read More…
This week’s box included: cherry tomatoes, tomatoes, okra, cucumber, summer squash, cantaloupe, canary melon, corn, peppers I haven’t cut into those melons yet. They’re in the refrigerator chilling. But I’m sharing a recipe I saw in the New York Times for a melon, cherry tomato and cucumber salad. Nothing particularly unusual in it, except for Read More…
Contents of this week’s box, clockwise from top L: Sweet potatoes, butternut squash, apples, cornmeal, Napa cabbage, more apples. Missing from photo, bcs I forgot: bunch of turnip greens, tomatoes. True confession – I now have TWO heads of Napa cabbage in the refrigerator. Last week’s head did not make it to the cooking pot. Read More…
Love it when summer and fall collide in the box. A watermelon nestled next to a spaghetti squash nestled next to two delicata squash nestled next to a bag of field peas. So many directions you can go! I think I remember Charlotte telling me once the delicatas were her favorite squash. There are some Read More…
In all my years enjoying produce from Riverview, I’m pretty certain I’ve never seen a head of dill in our box. I am so excited! Last week I talked about no-cook refrigerator pickles. Well, now I’ve got to make more. Cucumbers, garlic, that dill seed head, along with some of the zucchini and stems of Read More…
Malabar spinach! At least I think that’s what those succulent leaves are in yesterday’s box. If that’s what it is, I’m very excited. When I had more sun in my yard, I grew Malabar spinach for it’s pretty vining habit and the fact that I could go out with scissors and cut just the number Read More…
I was so pleased to see little heads of garlic in this week’s box. I’ve been wondering where all the garlic is. Thank goodness it’s finally arrived. But I was totally surprised to see that cabbage. And kale. I would have thought we were past those greens, but I’m almost as glad to have them Read More…
Blueberry sauce. That’s what I made with my little bag of blueberries. Confession – last week’s little bag was still sitting in the refrigerator! When last week’s bag came, I couldn’t decide what to do with a cup of blueberries, and then the week went by. So today’s bag was the incentive to find that Read More…
I don’t know why but every year I’m surprised by that sweet little yellow-skinned watermelon in our boxes. I don’t think we see a whole lot of them – maybe one or two? – but they are delicious and the bright yellow always makes me smile. And what a colorful box this week with bright Read More…