![Farm Share 2011 (Week 2)](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2496/5854583047_5c2cfb2eca.jpg)
If I do miss it (and I hope I don't) this was not going to be the week. I made it with time to spare. This week's haul consisted of: Butter Head Lettuce, Green Towers Romaine Lettuce, Red Sail Lettuce, escarole, garlic scapes, radishes, summer squash, summer spinach, and a bunch of oregano
There have been heavy rains which have kicked up a huge amount of mud onto the lettuce resulting in the dirtiest lettuce I've ever encountered. Last week was the same which turned the small crack in my salad spinner into a gaping canyon of leaky water. Thus was the end of its life and I had to pick up a new one today.
![Old Salad Spinner](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/5855135200_8e314ba91a.jpg)
Old and busted.
![New Salad Spinner](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5221/5854583163_145287dc1f.jpg)
New hotness.
Still I had to wash my lettuce more than ten times. On the tenth or eleventh wash (I lost count) there was still dirt in the water. Eventually I figured I just gave up when my fingers had wrinkled as if I'd spent all afternoon in a pool. Eventually one has to accept some level of grits and just get on with dinner.
![Red Sail and Radish Salad with Cilantro, Lime, Zima Tomato, and Feta](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5317/5854583239_7a7a80f670.jpg)
The Red Sail looked beautiful so I made a salad with that, the radishes, some lime, cilantro, olive oil, salt, pepper, the remaining Zima tomatoes, and feta cheese.
![Garlic Scape Pesto](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/5855135282_13f91a7b9e.jpg)
The farm recommended a recipe for garlic scape pesto which sounded pretty good. I pretty much followed the recipe by cutting up the scapes, adding some toasted walnuts, grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, salt, pepper, and olive oil. The only thing I really did differently was adding a lot of extra olive oil and omitting the yogurt.
![Homemade Gnocchi with Garlic Scape Pesto](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2790/5855135400_8ecb768975.jpg)
I served the pesto with some of my homemade gnocchi along with some ricotta. Sadly my gnocchi just don't freeze all that well. Last time I made them I put them into the water still frozen and by the time they were cooked they had bloated to be the size of golf balls. This time I thawed them out and they were soft and messy before they hit the water.
At any rate, the gnocchi was pretty good despite its messy appearance and texture.
![Flying Dog In-Heat Wheat](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5261/5854583285_94691af9c8.jpg)
For beer I opened this In-Heat Wheat from Flying Dog Brewery. This is a beer both Jen and I could easily enjoy. It has something for everyone. For me it was a nice light summery beer to pair with this late (extremely late) spring dish. For Jen it was a hefeweizen which is the main thing she looks at in a beer: is it or is it not a hefeweizen? It passed this test with flying colors.
![Blueberry Custard Pie](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2557/5855135426_370754b902.jpg)
For dessert I served up some slices of my rebranded blueberry custard pie (previously known as Blueberry "Napolean") from the other night.
I thought tonight we may carry our Abrahams and Zucker streak into this week with some of the Naked Gun movies. Instead I chose not to recommend this. Jen has been more than accommodating with this week's movies so I didn't want to spoil a good thing.
Besides, it's been nearly ten days since we've watch an episode of Top Gear. Who can live like that?
2 comments:
I should be glad that my old reliable Oxo is still going strong, but oh, how I lust after your new, sleek, modern, spinner!
It's pretty nice. Much easier to clean too.
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