ugly CSA week 10

[cellio]

• 2 bell peppers, 1 medium green and 1 very large half-orange (hoping it'll keep going)
• 1 zucchino
• 1 large acorn squash
• 1 medium red onion
• 8 medium Bartlet pears
• 7 medium-large Macintosh? apples

Weight: about 9 pounds.

I like fall squashes -- butternut, acorn, delicata, all good! I would be happy to get more of those. (And I wouldn't say no to more onions; a singleton surprised me a little.)

The manifest said Macintosh apples. Most images I found are redder than these, but maybe that's an effect of when they were picked.

Last week's apples were very good as apple crisp. I might do more of that, or make applesauce, or maybe it's time to dry some. (I like dried fruit, but last time I made it I had a working dehydrator. Time to learn how to do that in an oven.)

Comments

[cellio]

Thanks for the information! I don't care about showy, just about taste (and knowing that they're ripe, which they seem to be).

[loosecanon]

Apples have a wide window of ripeness; under means crisp and crunchy, over means tender and sweet.

If you have a food processor, the shred blade may solve your above concerns.