I've been eating rather much and not the best stuff the past month, burgers, burritos, picked up pizzas eating out with friends to try new stuff and new beer! and not enough green stuff. There were often vegetable that went with all these heavy meals but not much green. This really adds up on the scales and to the system generally within just a month or so!
So, a few vegetarian days and/or lentil/rice dishes will set some of this over indulgence right.
I just didn't want to eat the CSA veggies like I usually do so I lost some eggplant, basil, arugala. Fuzzy grey just doesn't look good on the pretty purple egg plants! Mea culpa!
However, the squashes, melon, great melons! peppers and chiles were eaten or frozen/dried for future use.
Seasons are changing even here in the desert. Lack of sun in the north patio is increasing every day very quickly, plenty left for solar cooking but it really moves every couple of days.
And because the seasons are changing there are herb plants available again at the neighborhood nursery so I picked up some: Italian parsley, thyme, Greek oregano, basil and one more oregano plant. I didn't even have any dried oregano, all gone!, and couldn't find the bottle of thyme I'd bought a couple of weeks ago. It will be nice to have some fresh stuff again. :)
Last year, I just kind of used the fresh stuff and watched how much they grew. This coming fall,winter when the plants really produce I will pick them and get them dried.
I just put leaves and greens put in the dehydrator and leave them sitting for a couple of days without the heater and they dry quite well.
Feeling much better than a couple of weeks ago. 90s instead of 103 is good and the evenings and mornings are almost cool, more like an absenth of warmth than cool yet.
cheers,
Shamba
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There are times when prepping and eating what comes in the CSA share seems like such a chore. The veggies are so fresh and good that I can only attribute it to palate fatigue (if we've gotten the same damn squash for two months straight) or being too busy to want to mess with it.
Glad you saved yours in the freezer rather than composting it all (other than the eggplant). I've been feeding my compost way too well lately - better than myself, in fact!
Chile, we did get an awful lot of squash for about a month this summer. the squashes themselves are fine but too many at one time this summer. Glad to hear I wasn't alone in this!
I wish we could get more lettuces.
peace, shamba
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