CSA week 9

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Please take 8 items and PYO Basil and 2 pink tomatoes and 4 green tomatoes

  • Carrots

  • Green Beans

  • Beets

  • Cabbage

  • Kale

  • Kohlrabi

  • Sweet peppers

  • Jalapeños

  • Sungold tomatoes

  • Potatoes

  • Eggplant

  • Red onions

  • Celery

  • Chinese cabbage

My mom has a history of bad eating habits here at our place. It seems as though because we are a farm she assumes everything on our property is edible and straight up as it is. There was the time I caught her munching on the decorative climbing beans I had growing near our wash station that were certainly not edible. Then there was the time I noticed the greens in the salad we were sharing were a bit leathery and I asked her where in the garden they had come from. She indicated an immature broccoli plant assuming it was a new kale variety. My favorite was when I though the grilled summer squash she said she harvested tasted tough, and it became clear that she had picked a green butternut squash and grilled it skin and all.

Most recently Kyle and I were able to sneak out for a late afternoon hike and dinner and came home to my dad saying there had been an incident. He told me downstairs so I could get all my laughing out before talking to my mom. She had been in our tunnel with both kids and eaten a whole jalapeño. By the time she got to the end of the tunnel she had collapsed in a deep sweat and was shaky with severe stomach pain. She called my dad to come get the kids and he started looking up heart attack symptoms quickly learning they can mirror hot pepper ingestion symptoms. She recovered fairly quickly and by the time Kyle and I got home was comfortably sitting on the couch helping Joni get ready for bed. I don’t know why it made me laugh so hard to hear the story, I laughed again in front of her which she was fine with. I think it was just a classic example of her unbridled farm eating habits that finally had (thankfully a quick) serious consequence. Anyway… the jalapeños are HOT and probably would be best chopped and cooked in salsa or a full dish. Enjoy.