This Week in Produce

This week's basket from our co-op was a little bit less exciting than normal, but I am still amazed at the bounty. We have a lot to use up this week, and I will have a lot of fun being creative with the fruits and veggies! We got an english cucumber (thinking refrigerator pickles), 2 heads of broccoli, a head of lettuce, a bag of carrots, a personal watermelon, 4 white potatoes, 2 green peppers, 6 nectarines, 6 green apples, 4 oranges, a bunch of green bananas, and a huge batch of radishes. 

We have a quite a bit of produce leftover from last week to use up as well, and a few things I picked up with vouchers at the grocery store. Plenty to work with! We have a bag of red potatoes, half a bag of white potatoes, a green pepper, 6 zucchini, a pound of green grapes, a pound of red grapes, a package of oyster mushrooms, a package of button mushrooms, 2 packages of blackberries, 12 ears of corn, 1 orange, and 5 tomatoes.

In addition to all of that, we took advantage of another amazing co-op deal and ordered 8 lbs of strawberries to put up for the winter.  2 lbs will be yummy fresh snacks for our family.  The rest will be made into various kinds of delicious jams.  Yum!