We’re closing out August with a terrific harvest! Cantaloupe melons are considered one of our favourite crops to develop. They ripen on the vine, in order that they’re able to eat. Please maintain them within the fridge and luxuriate in chilly! Bon appétit!
What’s in season this week?
Scallions
Delicate, crisp, and endlessly helpful — scallions belong in practically every little thing this week. Slice them skinny over grilled corn, fold them into a fast potato salad, or use them because the spine of a scallion oil to spoon over eggplant or noodles. Each the white and inexperienced elements are price utilizing; the greens add a milder onion taste and an exquisite fleck of coloration to any dish. Storage: refrigerate in an hermetic container and use inside per week.
Swiss Chard
These colourful stems are as scrumptious as they’re hanging. Sauté the chopped stems first with garlic and olive oil, then add the leaves, which wilt down in simply a few minutes. End with a squeeze of lemon, or fold it right into a frittata alongside scallions and summer season squash. Chard delivers distinctive quantities of nutritional vitamins Ok and A, plus magnesium. Storage: refrigerate in an hermetic container and use inside 5 days.
Eggplant
Shiny, deep purple, and at its best possible proper now. Slice into rounds, brush with olive oil, and grill till tender and frivolously charred — a squeeze of lemon and a scatter of herbs is all it wants. It is equally great roasted complete till collapsing gentle, then mashed with tahini and garlic for a fast baba ganoush. Storage: maintain in an hermetic container within the fridge and use inside about 5 days; eggplant is delicate to chilly, so do not tuck it within the coldest a part of the fridge.
Carrots
Candy and crisp, prepared for the final stretch of no-cook summer season meals. Eat them uncooked with hummus, shave into ribbons for salads, or roast alongside eggplant and summer season squash for a easy sheet-pan dinner. Storage: take away the greens and refrigerate the carrots in an hermetic container for as much as two weeks.
Inexperienced Beans
Snappy and recent, nonetheless going robust. Blanch and toss with olive oil and toasted almonds, blister in a sizzling skillet till charred, or serve chilly in a salad with corn and Sungolds. Storage: refrigerate in an hermetic container and use inside 5 days for the perfect snap.
Pink Tomatoes
The peak of tomato season is right here. A thick slice with flaky salt wants nothing else, however this week attempt layering them with recent mozzarella and basil, or roasting halves with olive oil and garlic till jammy and candy. Storage: by no means refrigerate — maintain at room temperature, stem-side down, out of direct solar, and use inside a number of days of full ripeness.
Sungold Cherry Tomatoes
Nonetheless the sweetest factor within the share. Halve them with basil and olive oil, toss right into a heat pasta, or just eat them out of hand. Storage: maintain at room temperature, out of direct solar; refrigeration dulls their taste.
Cucumbers
A brand new planting is right here! Storage: refrigerate in an hermetic container and use inside per week.
Candy Corn
Corn season continues its run. Boil for 3-4 minutes or grill within the husk with butter and salt, or reduce the uncooked kernels right into a salad with tomatoes and inexperienced beans. Storage: maintain within the husk within the fridge and eat as quickly as doable — the sweetness fades daily.
Summer season Squash
Tender and gentle, summer season squash rounds out the share superbly. Grill it in thick planks alongside the eggplant, grate it into fritters, or sauté with corn and scallions for a fast aspect. Storage: refrigerate unwashed in an hermetic container for as much as per week.
Cantaloupe Melon
A candy shock to shut out the share — nothing says late summer season fairly like a ripe cantaloupe. Get pleasure from it merely sliced, or costume it up with a squeeze of lime and a pinch of chili powder or flaky salt, which brings out its sweetness superbly. It is also pretty cubed right into a fruit salad with somewhat recent mint. Cantaloupe is a wonderful supply of nutritional vitamins A and C. Storage: It is already ripe! Retailer within the fridge and use inside a number of days.
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Coral Star Peaches
Storage: On the counter, not touching, till barely gentle to the contact and aromatic.
