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in produce! I spent I afternoon washing peppers and onions and carrots and tomatoes and melons and squash and eggplants and beets and potatoes and cabbage... Our farmers are very concerned because they've had 8 inches of rain in 12 days-- very unusual for Colorado in general, but especially in August. Both their truck and their tractor got stuck in the mud over the weekend. They can't drive into the fields, so to harvest they are lugging bushel baskets FULL out of the fields. They're exhausted, and afraid the produce is going to rot in the fields before they can get it out. As much as I enjoy the cooler weather and the moisture, I'm praying that we'd have some warm weather to dry out the fields. I'm freezing the peppers-- some sliced for stir-fry, some diced for soups, etc. I freeze the onions as well: sliced thin in rings for Carmelized Onion Sauce (to go on pasta with a little goat cheese and walnuts), and diced for everything else. But that will have to wait til tomorrow. I'm beat. |
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