While I’m looking at a clear driveway at the moment, the next round of Winter Weather is due overnight. As of 5pm on Monday, Mark and I are working on the assumption and sincere hope that we can open for business as usual this week on Tuesday and Wednesday. CSA Members can come on either Tuesday or Wednesday interchangeably, so if you typically pick up Wednesday and Tuesday looks better this week (or vice versa), go for it! If the situation changes and we need to close, I will notify and update folks using as many of the following methods as possible:
Updating the farm Voice Mail Message (253) 778-6257
Sending an Email Blast (if we have electricity and internet access)
Posting an update to our Website (if we have electricity and internet access)
… so feel free to check ahead before you make the drive if things look dicey.
Something about snow and ice and obsessively checking weather forecasts makes me crave Parsnips, so that’s what’s on the menu this week, along with Leeks, Pears, and Butternut/Autumn Frost Squash. We’re also lucky enough to have Fingerling Potatoes from First Cut Farm in Mt. Vernon in house for this week, so you may as well preheat your oven, grab your sheet pan and get cozy. That’s what hat has been getting us through these days of “Will It? Won’t It?” Weather—a 425 degree oven and my discovery of Eric Kim’s genius and super easy method for Sheet-Pan Quesadillas. I’ve branched out to adding beans and roasted root vegetables in place of the corn, inspired by the Root Vegetable Tacos that I have loved for years. It fueled the many hours we spent poring over the rows and columns of our planting plan, thumbing through seed catalogues and ordering the majority of the seeds that we will need this year. It is how we’re coping with not being able to do much else.
Stay Warm & Safe,
Katie
IN THIS WEEK’S FARMSHARES:
Parsnips
Leeks
Fingerling Potatoes
Winter Squash
Pears
RECIPES & SEASONAL TIPS:
CREAMY PARSNIP & PEAR SOUP- Alexandra’s Kitchen
PRESSURE COOKER CHICKEN TAGINE WITH BUTTERNUT SQUASH - Sarah DiGregorio
BUTTERNUT SQUASH & LEEK RISOTTO - Love & Lemons
LEEKS VINAIGRETTE - Simply Recipes
SPICED PARSNIP & PEAR OATS - Orie’s Farm Fresh