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

[hlinspjalda]

Did you notice an appreciable texture difference between the pulped version and the grated version? I'd been thinking about grating, because Mr. Fixer likes some chew, it's just that he can't do a lot of texture right now.

[cellio]

It seems a significant difference to me; I prefer it a little less pulped than what I got, but that might mean I over-blended (not having a lot of experience with that use case for blenders). You could try an experiment: grate some pear and bake it like you would for a pear crisp, and see if he can handle that level of chew. That way you don't have to commit to a whole pie's worth to find out -- just do a muffin's worth or so.

I'll probably go back to grating for myself.

Edited to add: when grating, try to collect the juice too.