September 2012 - Page 2 of 2 - Morning Song Farm

Note From The Farm

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We’re excited to have our late Sungold tomatoes in this week’s shares for all. They’re among the sweetest cherry tomatoes we can grow, and we grow them every year. We’re just beginning to harvest limes, at last. You’ll find them only in the large shares, and in a couple weeks, we hope to have them across the board. This is the last week for Asian pears. We don’t have ladders tall enough to reach the highest parts of our pear trees, so the highest fruit is now being pecked by birds. We had plenty to put in all boxes for weeks, so don’t mind sharing a few hundred pounds with the birds. They have to eat, too!

What’s coming up: apples, persimmons, pomegranites, passion fruit, dragon fruit, guavas and navel oranges. In the gardens: brocolli, eggplant, beets, lettuces, radish, carrots, and more. As most of you know, we have 10 acres of macadamias but not a whole lot of nuts because of a squirrel population that we can’t control organically. We do hope to have enough nuts to put in boxes, but it’s too soon to tell what the harvest will be.

Tuesday Share Whopper Zuch Recipe

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Among my favorite ways of preparing zuchini is below. Lindy Herman, CSA member sent these photos and preparation tips. It’s similar to mine. She stuffed it with Trader Joe’s multigrain blend (couscous, quinoa, etc.), and added garlic, parsley, browned onions and parmesan cheese. She then topped it with a breadcrumb and parmesan cheese topping for the last 10 minutes. She didn’t specify how long she cooked the beast; but it’s somewhat unhelpful even if she’d said, because though each large share today received a large zuch,  everyone’s is a different size.  That’s one thing about a small farm like ours, we don’t grow enough of something like this to set up a uniformity line.  Anyway, we cooked ours for about 45 minutes at 350, which you can use as a guideline. I couldn’t tell if she cut up any of the zuchini before baking. That’s what I do; I scoop out maybe half of the “meat” of each halved zuch, and cube, combine with mixture and then stuff back into the zuchini before baking.

Here’s one of my family favorite recipes if you’d like to include meat:
1. cook up a pound of ground hamburger, ground turkey, or a soy substitute.
2. Add several cloves of garlic and a half of an onion, and fry those up, too.
3. Toss in a little green pepper, perhaps a half cup of chopped walnuts, and grated hard cheese like parmesan.
4. You can either use a purchased bread crumb mix, or make your own like I do. I originally started making my own bread crumbs because I object to the added preservatives and chemicals in most brands at the store. Really, buying bread crumbs is highway robbery, a whole can of bread crumbs is probably 4 or 5 pieces of toast. And by making your own, you can choose the bread you prefer, know that you aren’t eating preservatives (check the label…almost all brands have preservatives!), and choose the amount of salt and herbs that’s best for you.  I Cuisinart my favorite toast for fine grain and just hand crumble said toast for larger “crouton” type pieces. It’s not a bad idea to do both for this recipe.
5. I add celery if I have it, a little of Temecula Olive Oil’s oil; and a dash of hot sauce.
6. Toss everything back into your zuch halves and save what doesn’t fit for another night’s meal. There’s always too much to put back into the zuch, so I freeze what’s left and use it for a quick-to-prepare meal when I need it most.

Thanks, Lindy!!

Curly endive Salad Recipe

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Ingredients:
24 pimiento-stuffed olives
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
3 tablespoons minced fresh oregano
1 tblespoon minced fresh mint
1/4 t of salt
1/8 t of freshly ground pepper
2 ounces crumbled feta cheese

Directions:
In a salad bowl, toss your endive, onion and olives. In a jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the oil, vinegar, oregano, mint, salt and pepper; shake well. Drizzle over salad and toss to coat. Tpop with cheese.

from tastofhome.com

Farmer Donna Heading out of Town

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OK, I know it’s uncool to publish an unharvested harvest ticket; but I’m heading out of town on the worst possible day of the week to head out of town; (yet another stab at trying to get my ongoing divorce handled; 4.5 years and counting) and wanted to have some sort of post available. So, yeah, I may have some items wrong–I’m hoping to get basil in boxes this week; but the heat has made our field iffy–I watered well last night and hope to get at least small bunches in boxes this morning in my absense.. Also, we have a couple new items: curly endive which is spicier, and tougher than regular lettuce; and escarole; which is amazing boiled in chicken or veggie broth; but can be consumed raw as well.

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