summer CSA, week 17

[cellio]

• large heirloom tomato
• sweet potato
• fairytale eggplant (I've never heard that name before)
• bunch of white turnips with greens
• green bell pepper
• large acorn squash
• 7 McIntosh apples
• 6 Bartlet pears
• 4 assorted mild peppers, to be identified
• bunch parsley

The preview email said the pepper medley would include green peppers, no-heat jalapenos, cubanelles, and poblanos. I'm not sure which of these peppers are which. The one that looks like a green bell pepper doesn't smell like one and makes me think poblano. The pictures I found of cubanelles are various colors, with the only green being light green -- don't know if that's what I've got there. Anybody who can help with pepper identification, please speak up. :-)

I sometimes stuff acorn squash with apples; I might try pears for a change. I'll roast the turnips, maybe with a mustard sauce. I sauteed the greens tonight with ginger, shallot, and red and yellow mini-peppers from the last share. The eggplant will be all for me because Dani hates eggplant; I might bread and fry it.

Comments

[dsrtao]

The long, smoothly ovoid dark green pepper is a jalapeno. The wavy light green one in front of it is a cubanelle. The dark green behind the jalapeno is a poblano. I have no idea what the pseudo-bell pepper is, but it could be another poblano.

[cellio]

Thanks! I suppose it could also be a green pepper that smells more like poblano from being in a bag with the latter. Maybe I'll stuff it and the known-poblano and give this one to Dani since he likes green peppers. :-)

[minoanmiss]

The one that looks like a green bell pepper doesn't smell like one and makes me think poblano.

Most likely, especially if they look like green bell peppers with a pointy end, and are flatter/not as boxy. Cubanelles do tend to be light greek afaik.

[cellio]

Thanks for the help!

[minoanmiss]

For some reason the picture didn't show up for me last time.

Having now seen it, I think that dude may just be a green pepper borrowing the poblano's perfume. See how it smells when you cut it open.