The haricot vert green beans are looking really good - a nice rain (maybe tonight??!!) would make them grow even better but we can look forward to lots of bean picking over the next few weeks.
The squash and zucchini will now be offered as needed - they are now, as they say, coming out of our ears.
Muddy Fingers Farm has a facebook page. It has not been updated regularly but we hope that will soon change.
This week's vegetables
lettuce
lettuce mixsunflower shoots
pea shoots
squash and zucchini
cucumbers
dill and parsley
new potatoes
Swiss chard
kale
garlic scapes
beans
green onions
baby leeks
eggplants
peppers
beets
a few tomatillos
next week:
same plus...
a few tomatoes
garlic
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After a lot of greedy hesitation I decided to share with everyone my grandmother's Russian recipe for half-sour pickes. Muddy Fingers pickling cukes are ideal for this recipe - the ones from supermarket will never taste the same:
One quart glass jar.
As many small cukes you will fit in this jar.
A bunch of dill
A few large gloves of German white garlic or any strong fresh garlic -thinly sliced.
2 tablespoons of kosher salt (maybe less, maybe more - taste the water. It should be salty but not bitter)
Optional but desirable: oak leaves, sour cherry leaves, black currant leaves, horseradish leaves - all of them give flavor but are highly optional. You need about 2-3 leaves of each per jar.
Place 1/2 of dill, leaves and garlic in the jar. Place half of cukes in the jar. Again put some leaves, garlic and dill and then some cukes to the top, and then top the cukes with leaves, dill and garlic. Put salt and fill the jar with boiling water. ( you can use cold water too but then it will take the cukes longer time to ferment) Some people even use mineral naturally-sparkling water!
NO VINEGAR!
Close the lid. Wait till water cools and refrigerate for 48 hours, maybe a little bit more.
Eat those pickles with small potatoes boiled in skins, with cottage cheese, eggs, with whatever you like. Pour in some vodka if you wish and eat them with black bread and vodka!
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