Today is a day of massive fridge cleaning. We’ve been over run with deliveries, supplemental things we’ve picked up and farmers market finds. Combine all of that with some eating out and we’re once again filling up the compost bin!
That said, here’s today’s box full of goodies:
- a head of red leaf lettuce
- kale
- garlic spears
- broccoli
- a cucumber
- green onions
- peas
- celery
- 10 red potatoes
- 3 yams
- 2 bulbs of garlic
- cherries
- blueberries
- 3 nectarines
- 5 apricots
- cilantro
In the fridge:
- green leaf lettuce
- 4 avocados (thrilled to learn that putting a ripe avocado in the fridge will let it sit for quite a while before getting around to using)
- 1 cucumber
- some garlic
- 2 shallot
- some onions
- kale
- chard
- celery
- green cabbage
- 5 apples
- broccoli
- head of cauliflower
- 2 bulbs of fennel
- carrots
- red beets
- radishes
- 4 zucchini
- 5 grapefruit
- 4 mangoes
- a lemon
- 4 limes
- 3 peaches
- 3 plums
- 3 pluots
- 2 apricots
- 1 plantain
- several red & orange bell peppers
- 2 small daikon
- several bananas
- 2 pints strawberries
- medium sized jicama
- 1 tomato
- young Walla Walla onions
- 3 red bell peppers
- 1 orange bell pepper
- ginger
- cherries
- 4 pints of blueberries
- 1/2 pint of raspberries
- russet potatoes
- red potatoes
- yams
- green peas (from our garden – yeah!)
The Compost Pail of Shame (what we didn’t use and had to compost):
- piles of lettuce
- bunches of spinach
- a little cilantro
- some basil
- sunchokes
- bits of green pepper
- some broccoli
- 4 ears of corn
- a mango
Even more terrifying looking at it all written out…
OK, just how to cope with all this produce? Here’s the ideas I’ve got, I’m grateful we have a party this weekend to help with the produce 🙂
- Raw kale salad will use up the 2 bunches of kale easily
- Tortilla soup (cilantro, zucchini, limes, carrots, celery, aromatics)
- Jicama Salad (if it is still in good shape when I go to peel)
- potato salad for the 4th of July
- Miso Udon Stew (broccoli, carrots, shallot)
- Daikon & Carrot Salad
- Garlic spear pesto
- Lots of fruit salad
- Cabbage & Pea salad
- Big stir-fry (more broccoli, chard, greens from garden)
- Big green salad for the 4th of July