Week 14: red romaine lettuce, red butterhead lettuce, green bell peppers, red onions, eggplant, white Japanese eggplant, Yukon Gold potatoes, cherry tomatoes, red tomatoes, and carrots.For this week's Lancaster Farm Fresh CSA delivery, we swapped out jalapenos and basil (we grow both in our tiny raised patio bed) for red tomatoes and an extra eggplant.
There are three Bartlett pear trees I take care of that prematurely drop fruit (deer, squirrels and raccoons assist in the "dropping"), so for the past few weeks I've been collecting a couple dozen unripe pears each week. This week I made a huge batch of pear chutney, and canned it. The red onions from the CSA went into the chutney. 
Not one to waste, I took the syrup and bits from the bottom of the pear chutney cooking pot that didn't fit into the last jar, and used it as a base for a sauce to a Chinese-ish stir fried eggplant dish.
Ironically, lettuce does not grow well during the hottest months of summer when you want a salad the most. I was happy to see the return of lettuce, and get on to eating some salads again. This one involved the red romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, and grated carrots from the CSA, as well as Soy Curls.
Here we have a classic Greek salad with feta, cucumbers (from the previous week's CSA), butterhead lettuce, red onion, tomatoes, and bell peppers (from this week's haul).
The boy made Thai curry rice-stuffed peppers (two green from the CSA, one yellow from the store), and it wasn't bland like most stuffed pepper recipes. Yay!How did you use your CSA or farmers' market haul?
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