Loot – Week 5

Last week I went out to Washington State to visit my family. It was a really nice visit (and lovely weather). However, I flew out Thursday and so couldn’t pickup the weekly produce. I called some friends of ours and had them pick it up and try it out instead of risking Jaeger not getting around to picking it up and failing to eat everything in time.

Even though this is technically the 7th week of produce, it’s the 5th week I’ve received any (I also missed the very first shipment).

Jaeger’s in Australia now for work. Of course, this would be the biggest produce amount so far :-)

We got:

  • 5lbs 13 oz Cantaloupe

  • 4 lbs 6 oz Yellow Watermelon

  • 10.2 lbs Red watermelon (it was too heavy for my kitchen scale so I had to use the bathroom scale to weigh it)

  • 2 lbs 14 oz Corn (5 ears)

  • 5 lbs 2 oz Melons (2 of some variety of cantaloupe?)

  • 7 oz Tomato

  • 15 oz Yellow Beans

  • 1 lb 4 oz bright orange Squash (not sure what kind — shaped kind of like a zucchini but with a bright orange skin)

  • 1 lb 2 oz Zucchini

  • 1 lb 5 oz Cucumber (2)

  • 7 oz Yellow Squash
  • 3 lbs 2 oz Red Onions

  • 9 oz Carrots

  • 3 lbs Red Potatoes

  • 2 oz Lemon Cucumber (1)

As you can see, we received a total of 4 melons. It’s really too bad that Jaeger’s gone because he like melons much more than I do. Thursday night I ate one of the smaller cantaloupe (at least, I think it was a cantaloupe). It was a very good cantaloupe but I think I overdosed by trying to eat the whole thing by myself. Friday I took the watermelon into work and let others work on consuming it. Today, I ate 1/4 of the yellow watermelon and am probably going to seed, chop and freeze the rest (anyone ever had frozen watermelon before?). Assuming it lasts, I’m going to take the biggest cantaloupe in to work on Monday. This still leaves one more cantaloupe to dispose of. I’m considering various options including Cantaloupe Cream Pie and Cantaloupe Bread.

Last night I roasted the yellow beans and ate them with pasta. I also made potato salad for today. However, I still had some red potatoes from 2 weeks ago and so it didn’t make much of a dent in this week’s distribution. This morning I made hash browns and did manage to finish of the Yukon potatoes from 3 weeks ago.

Now I need to figure out how to use the rest of the produce before next Thursday. As I said, from a produce point of view, this was a bad week for Jaeger to be gone :-)