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| Love all the purples! |
The most impressive colors arrived this week - lavender peppers, purple scallions, red and yellow tomatoes and look at those plums! All that fruit begs to be made into pie or jam. But they're too juicy and flavorful to ruin by adding sugar or crust. I threw two or three in my backpack every morning and by the time I got home they were gone - eaten at the park, the office, a cafe table on Broadway, the theater, the subway and just about anyplace else I happened to be. By the end of the week our basket was empty and we were ready for a refill.
The beautiful yellow (summer) squash got sauteed with mushrooms and an onion (Brenda's recipe- I just modified by leaving out the cheese, which I have to admit makes it a tastier concoction) for easy to pack box lunches. The zucchini turned into bread and everything else ... well, that's the title of this post.
Okay, I had my first vegetable disaster this week. For months I've had visions of making my own salsa and presented with all the ingredients I took a turn with the new Blendtec. Add onions, pepper, tomatoes (which I brought from Arkansas), crushed red pepper (my first mistake), cucumber (my second mistake), herbs, salt and spin (my biggest mistake!).
Everything looked supple and lovely thrown in together. I selected "whole food", then "pulse" on the blender (perhaps I should have consulted the instructions but this seemed logical to me) and pressed "start". Before I could press STOP it was smashed beyond salsa and frothed an ugly brownish-pink. "Gazpacho!", I thought, not wanting to admit immediate defeat. So I added cherry tomatoes and cucumber and pressed "soup". Wrong again! It stared gyrating in a 4-minute cycle and I quickly aborted, gave up on further blending and poured. It had some resemblance to gazpacho but not a very good one. I tried to pawn some off on Benedicta but she couldn't take the crushed red pepper. So for three days running I drank salsa smoothie for lunch. It wasn't terrible, and with every swig I reminded myself how healthy it surely was, but I've never been so happy to empty a bowl.
I'm not cured of my desire to make homemade salsa. But next time I'm going to use an old-fashioned chopping knife!
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Started off right with onions, peppers, tomatoes and herbs. |
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| Instantly it turned frothy. |
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| So I added to the problem with more cucumber. |
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| Way past gazpacho texture. |
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| Not even recognizable as a salsa. |
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