Week 20 Veggie List & Ideas

First Peppers & Tomatoes of this Cool CA Summer

It’s that time of year when the light turns golden and so do the redwood needles in northern California. It’s the warmest, driest time of year, and days are noticeably shorter. Soon fall winds will send the golden redwood needles flying, but until then, let’s revel in the golden light, and take some time off to enjoy it. You might have noticed that I took a little break myself, on vacation in Oregon last week, so didn’t post the usual veggie list and menus.

Finally our first tomatoes of the year: both Early Girls and cherry tomatoes. And the first sweet peppers, which of course combine wonderfully with tomatoes. More radicchio means that we’ll be cooking some with onions and sugar, the only way I know of to eat it comfortably. And I'm wondering about how to make raspberry vinegar before raspberry season is over. Leftover dill might be useful on the beets from last week and this week. And cilantro pesto perhaps?

This week’s veggies:

Arugula

Asian stir-fry mix (tatsoi & mizuna)

Beets (red & golden)

Chard

Cilantro

Leeks

Lettuce

Potatoes (yellow finn)

Radicchio

Sweet peppers

Dry-farmed tomatoes

Strawberries

Raspberries

Sungold cherry tomatoes

Leftovers: baked chicken, beet soup, beets, steak, corn, cherry tomatoes, lettuce, radicchio, dill

Ideas:

Salad: lettuce, tomatoes

Simply steam: greens, chard

Pasta with Leeks, Tomatoes & Peppers

Sicilian Sauteed Radicchio: with leeks?

Tuscan-style Garlic Arugula, with Asian greens too?

Sauteed Radishes with their Greens

Cilantro Pesto with salmon or pasta?

Potato Leek Soup