PrintThe Last Buys of Summer
Yes, I know that summer's over, but summer produce is hanging on. When I saw the inexorable march of apples and squash today, I bought two quarts of blueberries, two pounds of aji (seasoning ) peppers, and four pounds of red bell peppers. How are you facing the changeover to fall and winter foods?
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11 Comments:
I love apples, squash,cranberries,and all the rest. But I can't get over the fact that the price of blueberries has doubled in the last 2 weeks. I miss blueberries at a reasonable price.
Mich23 at 6:14PM on 10/06/07
My favorite memory as a child was shucking corn on a warm indian summer night and have a camp fire in my back yard. We'd wrap the corn in foil with some butter and salt or just leave them in thier husks and roast them in the fire. In my little farm town in Connecticut you can still buy corn from the many farms along route 17 in Northford until mid October.
Apizza Luv at 6:23PM on 10/06/07
Oh, the blueberries were expensive, all right, but I had to have them.
I gave up on corn a couple of weeks ago, way too mealy.
BaHa at 9:25AM on 10/07/07
How are you facing the changeover to fall and winter foods?
Any day now, I expect start being cranky about not being able to get good fresh ripe peaches and fully expect to be tiresomely cranky to anyone who mentions peaches to me about it until next summer comes.
Karen Resta at 9:58AM on 10/07/07
At the Union Square Greenmarket, tomatoes are divine right now, and Eckerton Farm's chili peppers are explosive! They freeze very well, and make even February endurable.
Tom Steele at 3:02PM on 10/07/07
I'm buying up the last bits of tomatoes (especialy the Heirlooms) and stocking up on apples, broccoli, and kale.
StudentStomach at 3:34PM on 10/07/07
This October seems particularly freakish in north Mississippi. The farmer's market has ended for the season. We've had quite a drought this year which has left us with few tomatoes. Earlier in the year, a late freeze wiped out the local peaches. Usually the temps have cooled off by now, but it is still up to 90 every afternoon! Even though the leaves are falling, it's tough to get into the mood for pot roast or meatloaf when it is still so hot.
Library Lady at 9:44AM on 10/08/07
A friend and I bagged 90 pounds of roasted green chile over the past two weekends. The aroma of roasted chile is the backdrop to autumn in New Mexico. We feel like the little grasshopper, with bags and bags of chile in our freezers... Served green chile as a side to last night's meatloaf-with-mashed-potatoes-and-gravy Sunday dinner. Fall has definitely arrived!
hatlady at 11:26AM on 10/08/07
We're still grilling all sorts of summer veggies since it's still hot out! Zucchini and summer squash blossoms...haven't said goodbye to you yet!
Hillary
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Chew on That at 7:38PM on 10/08/07
We're hanging on here in Southern Ontario with some unseasonably warm weather.I got yummy summer squash and awesome honeycrisp apples at the farmer's market this weekend. The cauliflower has been good too, and I got field tomatoes this weekend that were the best I had tasted all summer. I think I'm just in denial about winter coming, although I bought a ton of sweet potatoes, which for some reason, are a cold weather food for me, so perhaps somewhere deep down, I know the cold is coming.
psychsarah at 2:23PM on 10/10/07
- How are you facing the changeover to fall and winter foods?
I luuurve autumn and winter foods. Can't wait to get my hands on a nice piece of pumpkin :) Beans, peas, lentils! Hurray for autumn!
jenneke at 6:17PM on 10/10/07