Vegetables of the Week:
Peppers, Cantaloupe, Summer Squash, Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes
Harvest Week: August 26th - 31th 2007
This Week:
Summer Squash with Garlic and Herbs
Summer Squash with Garlic and Herbs
from Chez Panisse -- Vegetables, by Alice Waters
Choose a mixture of very fresh squashes: yellow
crookneck, green and yellow zucchini, and little
pattypan squash.
Trim and slice or cut into julienne.
Saute in olive oil in a saute pan until tender and just
beginning to brown.
Add a generous amount of freshly chopped garlic and basil or marjoram, and season with salt and pepper.
Cook just a minute more, until the garlic releases its aroma; squeeze over a bit of lemon juice, and serve.This recipe was sent in by shareholder Judy Fallows, who says that Alice Waters is one of the founders of the Edible Schoolyard and is one of Judy's heroes.
See: http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/homepage.html.
Recipes adapted from Farmer John's Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables (Gibbs Smith, Publisher, www.gibbs-smith.com, 2006), "Relish the American Farmer," August 2006.
Forces in Food
If one needs to stimulate one's thinking then one should use especially the salty stimulant of the radish for instance. If someone is not very active in the head it is good for him to add some radish to his food which will activate his thoughts a little. So you see the strange fact emerges: One can say radishes stimulate thinking. And one does not even need to be very active oneself, the thoughts simply come when one eats radishes -- such strong thoughts that they even generate powerful dreams.
-- Rudolf Steiner, from Nutrition and Stimulants
[ Excerpted from Farmer John's Cookbook: The Real Dirt On Vegetables: Seasonal Recipes and Stories from a Community Supported Farm by Farmer John Peterson & Angelic Organics (Gibbs Smith Publisher). Check with your local farm or bookstore for availability. Additional recipes, charts, indvidual copies of this book, and quantity discounts available at www.AngelicOrganics.com/cookbook.]
