[Week 9] How to Quick-Pickle Anything + 6 Recipes to Make This Week

Tomatillos — help! Plus: Potatoes, Eggplant, Corn, Tomatoes & More

Hello Farm Share Friends:

A few days ago a friend dropped off a dozen jalapeños from her garden. We were just about to head out of town for the week, and I didn’t want them to go to waste, so I sliced them up, pulled out a small pot, and made my favorite, simple quick-pickle brine.

The recipe I use comes from David Lebovitz, and it takes no time to make: bring equal parts water and vinegar to a simmer with a little sugar and salt; then pour the brine over the vegetables.

That’s it. It doubles, triples, and halves well, so you can adjust the recipe easily to whatever amount of vegetables you have on hand — often I make 4 or 6 times the recipe.

I use this brine with carrots and cauliflower …

… peppers and fennel…

… jalapeños and …

… onions, beets, turnips, radishes, cucumbers, kohlrabi ... everything.

I find pickling to be as helpful a technique to turn to when I am overloaded with certain vegetables (radishes! turnips!) as when I am underloaded (a single fennel bulb, for example, or two small peppers).

Pickling is a great way to buy yourself time when you can't quite get to cooking all of those summer gems, and pickles are so nice to have on hand — what sandwich, taco, pizza isn't made better, brighter by a little quick pickle?

PS: This week we are receiving tomatillos, a vegetable for which I have only one recipe: tomatillo salsa. Please share your favorite tomatillo recipes below!

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Week 9 Vegetables

• Tomatoes → Tomato Recipes

• Potatoes → Potato Recipes

• Corn → Corn Recipes

• Tomatillos → Tomatillo Salsa Recipe

• Eggplant → Eggplant Recipes​​

• Scallions → Scallion Recipes​​​

• Peppers → Pepper Recipes

• Arugla & Head Lettuce → Salads

• Basil → Herb Recipes

• Carrots → Carrot Recipes

• Cantaloupe → Melon Salad

Find recipes for all the vegetables here → Farm Share Vegetables

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6 Recipes to Make This Week

This week’s share looks similar to last, so check out the Week 8 post for more recipe ideas for corn, eggplant, potatoes, peppers, and more.

Grilled Vegetable Tacos with Tomatillo Salsa In short: grill ALL of your vegetables, chop them up, combine them, then tuck them into tortillas and top with tomatillo (or other) salsa as well as any other fixins you like: pickled jalapeños, radishes, onions, cheese, crema, etc.

Crispy Oven Fries: I make these oven fries year-round at least once a week, but never are they better than when made with the farm share potatoes.

Simple Stovetop Green Beans We are not expecting green beans this week, but it’s possible that you are or that your garden is exploding with them, and if either of those is the case, this is a great low-effort, big-reward recipe to know.

Roasted Poblano Quesadillas

Eggplant Involtini, Simplified

Melissa Clark’s Creamy (No Cream) Corn Pasta

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Fellow Farm Sharers: Please share in the comments links to recipes you are loving for your farm share vegetables! Tips, questions, and suggestions are always welcome, too. Enjoy your vegetables! 🥦🥬🥒🌶🌽🥕 See you next week :)