olive oil dressing to them and top with pine nuts and such. We only have one more serving of lettuce for everyone, so we are trying to hold it until next week and end the year with fresh lettuce and some spinach. The Jarhdale and Ilumina can be cooked up and mixed with butternut squash to make some great tasting pies. The Long Pie pie pumpkin is one of my favorites. It is a great keeper, too. I wanted to have beets for you this week also so that you could include them in with everything else if you were interested in making the veggie chips (see recipe section). The potatoes would be so pretty together with the carrots, beets and such. If you want to, hold onto your potatoes for next week and try it!!
My favorite way of cooking chard in the winter is in soup. I love cooking a ham bone with beans all day. Remove the bone and add potatoes, carrots, celery and your favorite seasonings—mostly just a bay leaf with salt and pepper and garlic. Right when the vegetables begin to get tender, I will mash everything in the pot just a couple of times which mashes the beans and thickens the soup. 10 minutes before shutting the heat off, I add shredded Swiss chard to the pot and then serve with Parmesan or cheddar cheese. My grandmother made her minestrone soup this way. It is soooo good! The ham hock gives it great flavor.
This is an end-of-the-season reminder to return all of your boxes. Please check in those out of the way places that they may have been stashed because the box monster has been busy eating them. We have a lot missing, so if we can announce "a roundup of the boxes" and bring them on in next week, we would sure appreciate it!!
Sad to say, next week, December 9th , is our last delivery. Pauline has already told me she is heading south to hibernate for a few months. She deserves it. The farmers are all drooling over all of the seed catalogs that are pouring in. Oooohhhh my goodness. The covers so far are some of the best I have ever seen!!! (drool, drool, wish, wish, dream, dream!!)
We do have some homework for you next week . We have a survey going out to all of our 2008 customers, and we hope you take the opportunity to let yourself be heard and let us know what changes you would like to see made to the basket for 2009. We are constantly trying to alter our ways to please you, our faithful customers, so we would sure appreciate you taking the time to fill it out and send it in. Look for the survey in a separate email. Thank you so much.
And last but not least, this weekend on Saturday, the big "Holiday Fest "—In other words, the big opening of the West Street market is happening from 10:00 to 4:00. There is also a wine walk that day. If you have time to check it out, go on down town and see all that is happening down there. Too bad it has already frozen hard, but Leslie Allen had a beautiful garden planted in the median on West St. which ended up being the pride and joy of the folks around the area. Hope this wonderful idea takes off in other parts of Reno!! Have a good week.
Tina
The Cornucopia of Corn corn harvest at Lattin Farms is Saturday,
December 13 th , from 11am to 3pm. Check out the flyer here .
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