Week 30 Veggie List & Menu

Bumper Crop of U-Pick Apples

Fall is most assuredly asserting herself now, with golden sunny (and shorter) days and long chilly nights. On Monday we celebrate All Hallows Evening (Halloween or Samhain), marking mid-autumn and the end of the Celtic year. Traditionally, this is the third and final harvest of the year, the harvest of fruits and nuts. Fall fruits and veggies are abundant in coastal CA now: the last of summer’s tomatoes and peppers, fall’s apples and pumpkins, wintery root veggies and multi-seasonal lettuce and greens. This bounty of veggies calls for a giant stir fry on Saturday.

Fall is the time I miss living in New England the most, and I ordered 5 lbs. of organic cranberries from a farm in Cape Cod, MA. I’ve frozen some and have plans to make cranberry-orange glazed Cornish hens, one of my husband’s favorite meals.

Finding uses for the last 9 lbs. of tomatoes this season, I’ll be baking tomato sauce, experimenting with making ketchup, and quite probably making another round of herbed tomato soup, and maybe even making some fresh no-cook tomato sauce for spaghetti.

This week’s veggies:

Broccolini

Bok choy

Beets

Cilantro
Kale
Green beans
Leeks
Lettuce

Radishes & their Greens

Rutabagas
Summer squash
Dry-farmed tomatoes (lots!)

Gala apples (lots!)

Warren pears

Strawberries

Cranberries (lots!)

Leftovers: basil, oregano, red bell pepper, Armenian bell pepper, hot chili peppers, carrots, onion, butternut squash, fresh pinto beans, strawberries, applesauce, baked apples, zucchini in fresh tomato sauce

Wednesday

Leftover chicken with peppers, zucchini, tomatoes

Leftover carrot sambal

Leftover greens

Leftover baked apples

Thursday

Kale & beet green hot salad

Herbed tomato soup

Leftover chicken with peppers, zucchini, tomatoes

Leftover carrot sambal

Applesauce

Friday

Veggie burgers

Lemon ginger green beans

Applesauce, baked apples

Saturday

Lettuce and tomato salad with basil

Stir fry with broccolini, carrot, leek, red bell pepper & summer squash

Baked chicken

Sunday

Fresh pinto beans with hot and sweet peppers

Homemade cilantro salsa

Tortillas

Smashed radishes

Bake tomato sauce to freeze for later

Make ketchup

Monday

Cornish hens with cranberry orange sauce

Salad

Apple cranberry crisp

Tuesday

Spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce Santa Fe

or Herbed tomato soup  & leftovers