Can it be Farm Share #8 already?

Look! Just look at this beautiful farm share in which I recognize all the vegetables! Okay, I do have to admit that I supplemented at the Salem Farmer's Market. I bought those little yellow tomatoes and I think maybe the red ones, too. But seriously, Farm Share, don't give me a spectacular bunch of basil and NOT have tomatoes!

Fruit - once again, peaches and blueberries. And I say why mess with perfection?? I just ate the peaches (not all at once, but it was close...) and made the blueberries into a pie from my mother's recipe. The recipe is on the card in her very own writing. I will make it big so that you can turn your computer on its side if you want to transpose it...And the bread was sesame bread sticks so delicious I forgave them for not being focaccia!

BUT FIRST SOME GLAMOR SHOTS!

 This will be eggplant stacks!

 This will be garden salad!

 This will be caprese something!

For those of you keeping track at home, the veggies are basil, carrots, peppers, cukes, lettuce (green leaf and romaine!), scallions, garlic and eggplant.

 

 The fruit need not be named. Not in a bad way, like Voldemort, but because it is recognizable...

Here is Mom's blueberry pie recipe. I don't bother with the cream cheese crust because I am essentially lazy, but you can if you like. Also, it works really well with strawberries. I may try peaches later this season, too...

First you boil the berries, sugar and water

Then add the cream of tartar until it thickens. Once it is thick take it off the heat and add the lemon juice.



Once it cools, pour the glaze over the berries, and eat it up, YUM!

And now to eggplant. I must confess, I still had last week's eggplant left over. So I cut both the older dark one and the pale purple newbie and admired them.

Then I salted them and let them drain. Then I wiped them off, peeled them (because I forgot earlier), dipped them in egg and then a mixture of breadcrumbs and panko. Note to self, before dumping two containers of breadcrumbs into a bowl, make sure one of them isn't panko...

Then I fried them up in a surprisingly small amount of olive oil.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I chopped up some tomatoes and drizzled them with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Look at these delicious ingredients!

The little white blob is ricotta cheese with chopped basil in it.

This was quite possibly the most appealing farm share meal I have made thus far. It was SO delicious and other than a little olive oil and some ricotta, it was fresh from the earth. Okay, and the breadcrumbs. And the vinegar. You know what, just let me have this, okay? It was spectacular!

Here is the last glamor shot of the whole kit and kaboodle. The carrots and lettuce and peppers and scallions made a delicious garden salad. I am sure you know what one looks like, so I shan't put it up here. Also, I forgot.

The Eggplant Ricotta recipe is here, but I made them big bites and left out the Parmesan cheese. It was not missed. And you don't really need a recipe for this one. Just cook and eat!