stone soup breakfast - eggs!

So our farmshare from Stone Soup Farm is gifting us with delicious eggs this year that are from the chickens they have been raising on the farm!

gina marie and roommate emily and I went and saw the chickens earlier this spring.




Here is a gratuitous picture of gina marie and baby cows.

After our first farmshare delivery, I decided to whip up a little sandwich for myself in the morning. fresh spinach, cheddar cheese. A perfect egg. a little pepper and salt.




We are getting delicious bread from El Jardin bakery with the farmshare as well, so I sliced that up. this one is 8 grain.

I spread the spinach and cheese from the pan onto the bread

plus egg, and voila! delicious.



A few days later, I had some of that odd pesto I had made, and so I made another breakfast sandwich. this one was sans spinach, plus tomato and pesto. and on different a country loaf type deal.





I love eggs.

adventures in pesto

we got a lot of garlic scapes a few weeks ago. I had seen a mention of garlic scape pesto, and decided to make it. Without really consulting a lot of recipes. It turns out that it's a little harsh without any basil, but it worked okay.

My pesto was basically the followwing things combined in the magic bullet: olive oil, chopped garlic scapes, slivered almonds, microplaned pecorino romano, salt, pepper. and I just added until it seemed pretty good. It was a little harsh on its on, but really mellowed when cooked with veggies and made into a pasta sauce.

Gina then made delicious pesto. I hope she posts about it. hers was better than mine. I have things to learn!

strawberry jam

The other day, I went strawberry picking with gina marie and chloe elizabeth (of Greetings from the Chaise Lounge) and we got some delicious, although slightly waterlogged, strawberries.

It has been raining a lot here. The raining means that the strawberries are not as sweet as they could be, and go bad fast. The solution?

Make jam. and spread it on toast. (farmshare bread toast.)

to make the jam: take the tops off the strawberries. but them in a saucepan. add a tiny bit of water from your emptied wineglass and a healthy helping of sugar. turn the heat on low. stir. when they're a little soft, use the handblender to puree - defending yourself from strawberry stains with a pot lid. continue to heat and occasionally add a little sugar until it's a little darker and has a nice consistency. pour into tupperware and refrigerate



Let gina marie lick the pot.


Put on toast for breakfast.

hold me to it!

I am going to start posting again.

I am writing that here so that you will hold me to it.

First off, I will start writing what the contents is of my household's farmshare from Stone Soup Farm is every week. Sarah emily is getting a different farmshare now that she has moved to jp, so hopefully she will post too, and we can compare the bounties of our farmshares!

second, I am going to have to cook the food, so I'll post about it.

So: the first week was last week, and I don't totally remember, but here's my vague understanding (Jarrett & Annie actually brought us our share, and then we made dinner).

bok choi
cilantro
arugula
lettuce
baby greens salad mix
kohlrabi
strawberries
8 grain bread (from ... I can't remember the bakery)
eggs (from stone soup! they are so cute and differently sized and stuff)
spinach
radishes
there was more, but memory is failing me...

anyways, we made a salad and a dinner of black rice, black beans, and sauteed spinach and bok choy and it was delicious!

week 2:
strawberries again!
garlic scapes (a LOT of them. look for a post on garlic scape pesto soon)
zucchini & summer squash
kohlrabi
red lettuce
salad mix
mint (there were other options... sage and parsley, I think)
some kind of delicious white bread
eggs
arugula
kale (we had a chard option too)


I know I am forgetting things but...

it's a start!