Everything in our boxes this week is pretty self explanatory except perhaps some subscribers are unfamiliar with sorrel and or okra. Check out images below. I enjoy sorrel raw in salads. It has a lemon-tart flavor that isn’t overpowering. Although there’s some great okra recipes out there, my favorite continues to be basic fried okra. I make a simple toasted bread crumb with my cuisinart (although you can just skip that step and buy bread crumbs), roll in egg yolk, toss in the crumbs and fry in olive oil.
Last week’s dragons were older and best eaten shucked. This week’s dragons are younger and best steamed and eaten whole. Because of the heat, I think steaming them and then serving them chilled withi a little basil would be easy and satisfying. Squeeze a little lime, add a dash of salt; maybe a crush garlic glove and a splash of California olive oil.
Well, I think this is the best ever harvest ticket as far as readability goes. Each week I fiddle with different ways to get the ticket up on this blog. This week, it looks pretty readable. Yeah, me.
In light of our ongoing agricultural theft issues, we have decided to cut down some of our lime trees to make another row crop area that is easier to defend. So by September, we should be abandoning Garden X and Baby X which is the furthest away from the center of our farm and concentrating on our soon to be named new row crop garden next to the chickens.
It’s always a tough thing for me to cut ANY tree down, and I pretty much had to leave the farm as the chain saws were going. But I know that there’s no sense in working so hard at growing stuff that I can’t get in my CSA boxes because of theft. We’re figuring out costs this week to install security fencing and razor wire. We’ll probably do a combination of chain link, electrical and razor with some motion detection thrown in for the heck of it.
