Farm Share number... 8?

I picked up our farm share at Kickass Cupcakes on the 26th. We got three Japanese eggplants, an heirloom tomato, and two cipollini onions for the first time. Cipollini onions are small in size, but they have a great oniony flavor. Japanese eggplants are now the only eggplants that I'll eat. I've had eggplant in a few dishes, but it's not fit for human consumption unless it's passed through a blender. Grilled or baked the consistency is just disgusting. Japanese eggplants are completely different. D tried a bite of one raw and said it reminded her of a flavorless apple. We grilled them with our green pepper, cipollini onions, and zucchini on Thursday. Luke and Anne brought BBC and steaks, so while the veggies from our farm share are good, we got the way better deal. Steaks > Vegetables. Always.

The rest of the stuff we've received quite a few times now. We got arugula, kale, cilantro, garlic (which looked a little nasty this time), 3 peaches, cucumber, zucchini, and beets. The picture to the right is a close-up shot of the kale. The greens that we get are always fresh and look good too. In Greenfield, I was used to seeing slightly nasty produce at Greenfield Farmer's Market. I thought that when you bought organic, etc; it just had to look like that. Nope. Our stuff always looks good. Not as perfect as the stuff you buy at the grocery store, but when you get used to seeing farm share produce, the stuff at the grocery store looks plastic. Not appetizing, just plastic.

Our farm share sources some of its produce. The peaches, for example, come from a farm in Georgia, and not western Massachusetts. It would be ideal if they didn't have to be trucked 2,000 miles, but they're fresh and taste good. Actually, the peaches that we got this week reminded me of the mangoes in India. When you buy a mango at a supermarket, the consistency is likely to be closer to an apple than a peach, right? The meat of the mango won't be stringy and mushy. At least, in my experience, that's how the mangoes are. The mangoes in India (where they're so good that I would murder a cat to have one right now) are more like peaches. Either way, the peaches were great.

We've told our neighbor upstairs to pick up our farm share next week while we're in Oregon. FYI: D and I are taking a plane to Oregon today. I'll update after we land and do something worth posting about.