9/26

Springdale Farm News

This week's vegetables: sweet corn (the last!), lettuce, onions, potatoes, cherry tomatoes (for full shares), tomatoes, green beans (for half shares), broccoli, European cuke (some half shares), peppers, carrots, spinach, basil, roma tomatoes, cauliflower, eggplant

Please note: Not everything fit in your boxes this week. Full shares and half shares should take a bag of potatoes from the appropriate crates (which will be marked at your site). Half shares should also take one box of green beans. Boxes are heavy -- be careful when transporting!

Next week: swiss chard (last time!), leeks, lettuce/salad mix, cauliflower, tomatoes, delicata squash, broccoli, peppers/eggplant

Directions to the Farm for those of you coming to the Farm Day this Saturday: Take I43 north. A 1/2 mile past the Saukville/Port Washington exit Hwy 57 splits off from 43. Take 57 north. You'll go for 20-25 miles or so until you've passed through a tiny town called Waldo. A couple miles past Waldo take a left on County Rd. U. After a couple of miles take a right on County Rd. S. Then take the first road to the left called Silver Spring Ln. If you started going uphill on S you've gone too far. Our farm is the first farm you see on the left.

Recipe: Cauliflower Cheese Pie with Grated Potato Crust from Moosewood Cookbook
Crust:
2 cups (packed) grated raw potato
1/4 cup grated onion
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg white, lightly beaten
flour for your fingers
a little oil

Filling:
1Tbs. olive oils or butter
1 cup chopped onion
2 medium cloves garlic, minced
1/2 tsp. salt
black pepper to taste
1/2 tsp basil
1/4 tsp thyme
1 medium cauliflower, in small pieces
2 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1 cup (packed) grated cheddar
paprika

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Oil a 9-inch pie pan.
Combine grated potato and onion, salt, and egg white in a small bowl and mix well. Transfer to the pie pan and pat in to place with lightly floured fingers, building up the sides into a handsome edge.
Bake for 30 minutes, then brush the crust with a little oil and bake it 10 more minutes. Remove from oven, and turn the temperature down to 375.
Heat the olive oil or butter in a large skillet. Add onions, garlic, salt, pepper, and herbs, and saute over medium heat for about 5 minutes. Add cauliflower, stir, and cover. Cook until tender, stirring occasionally (about 8 to 10 minutes).
Spread half the cheese onto the baked crust (ok if it's still hot). Spoon the sauteed vegetables on top, then sprinkle on the remaining cheese. Beat the eggs and milk together, and pour this over the top. Dust lightly with paprika.

Tomato Pie from subscriber Melanie De Vriend.
pie crust
sliced tomatoes
In a bowl, mix:
mayo
fresh basil
fresh chives
pepper
Smear this concoction on top of the tomatoes in the pie crust
top the whole thing with shredded cheddar. Bake.
YUM!


Olive Garden's Alfredo from subscriber Melanie De Vriend
1 stick butter
1/2 cup half and half cream
8 oz cream cheese
3/4 cu grated Parmesan
Dash of salt
Garlic - to taste


Place first 4 ingredients in a sauce pan and heat, stirring, over low heat until melted and creamy.
Add salt and garlic. Serve over cooked pasta and a pile of the Seely's veggies, stir fried!

Reminders: Schedule of remaining deliveries: Oct. 3, 10, 17 and 24, Nov. 7 and 21, and Dec. 5. Farm day this Saturday! Come anytime between 10:30 and 4:30; we'll have a pot-luck at 12:30! Tour of the fields after lunch, and help with harvesting (leeks, cabbage) either before or after lunch. if you would like to come out to the farm, but can't make this one, we'll be doing it again on Oct. 25th.

Get ready for radiation of spinach and lettuce: Last month the FDA issued a new federal regulation permitting the use of ionizing irradiation for the control of food-borne pathogens and extension of shelf life in lettuce and spinach. (The USDA is also considering allowing low-level radiation of animal carcasses at slaughtering plants.) Have there been studies done on the long-term effects of such radiation? Certainly not that have been made public. Is there a more obvious solution to minimizing the amount of e-coli, salmonella, and other cases of food poisoning? Perhaps we should be taking a look at our factory farming methods of agriculture, and see how those methods are contributing to the occurrences of food poisoning; that evidence is out there, should any official or legislator have the courage to take a look at it!
Just to be safe, though, would anyone be willing to donate funds (tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars) to our farm so that we could purchase a radiation machine, too? We love new toys! (JUST KIDDING!)

Have a good (radiation-free) week!

The Seelys

"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace." George W. Bush UN Speech Sept 2004