I’m probably just a little too pleased with that title. So you’d have to be, like, totally inept not to be able to store winter squashes relatively well in the short term. It’s like they were designed with our needs in mind, and you’d have to be a real malicious jackass to mess em upContinue reading “Storage Tips: Gourdy, Gourdy, Look Who’s Forty”
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Storage Tips: Managing Your Melons
Did you know that there’s a National Watermelon Promotion Board? Yeah, me neither. Here’s what they say about storing their, presumably, favorite food. Store Watermelon on the Warm Side Compared to most fruits, watermelons need a more “tropical” climate – a thermometer reading of 55° F is ideal. However, whole melons will keep for 7Continue reading “Storage Tips: Managing Your Melons”
Storage Tips: Eggplants
Turns out eggplants don’t like the refrigerator anymore than cucumbers or tomatoes. In a perfect world (which this clearly isn’t) they’d be kept at 50 degrees and consumed quickly. So, the choice is yours: bundle them up in a paper towel and plastic bag and keep them on the top shelf of your fridge, orContinue reading “Storage Tips: Eggplants”
Storage Tips: Children of the Corn
I’m really grasping at straws with this title. Suffice it to say this is about storing corn. NOTE: This info was wholeheartedly ganked from this website. Corn, like most things, is best eaten shortly after harvest. “You can wrap unhusked ears in a plastic bag and refrigerate until preparation time. Do not remove husks before storingContinue reading “Storage Tips: Children of the Corn”
Storage Tips: Stone Fruits (& Trapping Fruit Flies)
Stone fruits include peaches, nectarines, plums, pluots, apricots and cherries. Here’s some basics: You’ll know your stone fruit is ripe if it easily dents when you gently press your fingertip near the stem of the fruit. If it is hard near the stem when pressed, then it could stand to ripen just a bit more.Continue reading “Storage Tips: Stone Fruits (& Trapping Fruit Flies)”
Storage Tips: Keeping your onions in pantyhose
You heard me. Your onions, much like Tim Curry circa 1975, will look and feel their best in a pair of pantyhose. Here’s how. Get some clean (preferably new) pantyhose or thigh highs. Place one onion in the foot and tie a knot. Put another onion in, tie another knot. Continue that process until all yourContinue reading “Storage Tips: Keeping your onions in pantyhose”
Storage Tips: Tender Little Berries
Berries are delicious. They’re also fragile, fickle, little pricks. Really the best advice I can give you on this one is to eat em up, quick like. Alternately, go ahead and freeze them or turn them into a righteous compote that you can pour over everything: pancakes, ice cream, styrofoam packing peanuts, etc… But because we all like toContinue reading “Storage Tips: Tender Little Berries”
Storage Tips: Cukes, Zukes and Squarshes
(My grandfather adds an r into words like squash and wash. I can’t for the life of me figure out why.) The cool thing about writing this is I get to troubleshoot issues I’m having and then pass the info along. For instance, my cucumbers from last week are looking a little…. well…let’s just sayContinue reading “Storage Tips: Cukes, Zukes and Squarshes”
Storage Tips: Meal Planning
Caroline and Anthony’s Chalkboard This idea comes from Core Group members Caroline and Anthony and is a great way to help you manage your share and plan meals for the week. Keep a chalkboard or dry erase board in the kitchen on which you write down your weekly share. You can then write down menuContinue reading “Storage Tips: Meal Planning”
Storage Tips: Compost
Composting for the Erudite* Urbanite Composting. It’s great, right? Use something from the earth, allow it to return to it and start the whole cycle all over again. Hakuna Matata. That’s all fine and good when, say, you can have a big ol’ heaping pile of rotting foodstuffs out behind the ol’ barn or something,Continue reading “Storage Tips: Compost”
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