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From Cure Farm today: onions, bok choy, turnips, salad greens and braising greens and yes, the awesome carrots I was dreaming about.

Celebration dinner tonight included roasted asparagus from Jay Hill Farm with hard boiled egg, green salad with raw turnips and feta cheese (Haystack's), and glazed carrots (the ones that made it home as we ate a bunch at the farm). Then we had homemade strawberry ice cream... I was stuffed an hour ago, but it has not lasted... I don't know what those diet books mean when they say that eating lots of vegetables causes you to feel full - I'm ready for some steak now (just kidding...)

For the rest of the week, I am planning more experiments with the braising greens (I don't have the right touch with those just yet, and traded mine in for some bok choy at the farm today), a bok choy stir fry, roasted bok choy, something based on turnip and radish greens, and perhaps that caramelized onion pizza I never got to last week.

I'm also just now getting to soaking those beans I planned to cook last week. I am following a recipe in "Nourishing Traditions", as the author Sally Fallon is quite focused on digestibility, and adding dried epazote, which is supposed to help with the problematic aspects of beans. I am told that fresh epazote would be better, but I don't have a source.

The fruit share involves more strawberries (hence the strawberry ice cream) which are on the ripe to over-ripe side, so my tentative plan is to make my first strawberry-rhubarb jam tomorrow and hot water bath can it on Friday. I haven't canned in a decade, so wish me luck.

Oh and local-wise, beet sugar may be a better bet than honey for sweetening preserves, as per a previous comment on this blog.