Abbondanza!!

It's been a wonderful foodie week. Today tons of tomatillos were finally ready to be picked, along with a couple of jalapenos, a nice bunch of cherry tomatoes, a bell pepper, and our very first real Early Girl tomato of the season. Our roma tomatoes are struggling more than the early girls for some reason. We lost more than twenty tomatoes to flat, black molded bottoms. I went through and picked them all so that the plants' energy can go into ripening the rest of them... still sad.

Today's picks:We completely glutted ourselves on salsa verde crudo. I love the tomatillos so much! They're so cool with their papery husks. Zips was so happy to finally have enough to bust out the 12 cup food processor, instead of the mini chopper. I used to put cilantro in the salsa, but since Zips loved the last two batches I made with just onions, jalapeno, lime and a little salt, that's what I stuck with.
Here she is investigating the finished product:

We were saddened when we learned that the local farmer's market was cancelled Wednesday for the 4th of July, it meant no csa share for the week. But, then we got an email saying that they still had plenty of produce ready to be picked, if anyone wanted to pick some up at their farm, they were certainly invited.

They had no idea what they were in for! At one point, after picking a bushel of snow peas, and immersing myself elbow-deep in grape tomato plants, I had an epiphany: inviting a couple of vegetarians to "whatever you want" in a greenhouse and produce farm is literally like letting kids run loose in the candy store. We finally carted ourselves out of there after collecting the aforementioned bushel(!) of snowpeas, a couple of pounds of freshly unearthed Yukon gold potatoes, eight cucumbers, a yellow squash and zucchini (although, I passed on the larger ones, several zucchinis were the size of my thigh!), three small heads of broccoli, a brandywine heirloom tomato, two heads of freckle lettuce and a tiny sprig of swiss chard discovered in a corner of the greenhouse, and some cherry and grape tomatoes.

Can you believe it??!