thank you, farmers

[lauradi7dw]

Some of this is left from the final October farmers' market, but there is always one a couple of days before Thanksgiving. I have stocked up.
Winter squashes (4 kinds that will stay on the counter, 5 if you count the sugar pumpkins on the porch. 6 if you count the decorative one that is just sitting around being decorative)
apples, only a couple of varieties
red onions, yellow onions (stored in the metal-lined drawer, on brown paper)
garlic (ditto)
3 kinds of white potatoes, two kinds of sweet potatoes (in paper bags, will be in the fridge)
2 sizes of orange carrots, from two different farms. I didn't buy rainbow ones. (fridge)
daikon and watermelon radish, soon to be quick-pickled
1 golden beet (fridge)
3 kinds of lettuce (fridge)
3 kinds of cabbage (fridge)
broccoli (fridge)
Chinese spinach (fridge)
tatsoi (fridge)
alligator kale (fridge)
scallions (will be used in the Korean noodle salad for Thursday)
1 tiny tomato that was greenish when I bought it in October and is dark red now.
fresh ginger (to be grated into cranberry sauce. I have a package of Ocean Spray cranberries. Still MA, not from my farmers market)
I have some California celery hearts that I bought at Trader Joe's, ready to be chopped fine for nut loaf.

A lot of things make me burp. Bell peppers disagree with me more but wouldn't seriously harm me. Eating meat would presumably make me barf after 50+ years without. Otherwise, I have nothing like food allergies. I live in the opposite of a food desert and I have money to use to obtain the blessings of the land. I am very lucky, and very thankful.

Comments

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That is so awesome. fresh_haul specializes in farmer's market finds and sometimes people share them in gardening or the cooking comms.

I spotted a tiny butternut squash in your haul. :D This year one of our orchards had those -- the tiniest I'd ever seen -- and they were super sweet. I saved seeds from one. I made a crockpot dish with one that used pigeon peas, and the other I made curried squash soup that was excellent. I think next year I'll make more of that to freeze.