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]

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.