We're bringing in a lot of the winter squash this week! Making delicata available this week (just cooked some and it's delicious!) That said all the winter squash will continue to sweeten over the coming weeks, so don't feel any guilt in enjoying their beauty as a festive Fall table decoration and waiting a couple weeks to eat them. As long as they're in a dry, warm place winter squash can keep for months. Fennel is back, and next week we'll have basil again. This week we're facing a gap in lettuce due to missed plantings during the fires and evacuation. Should have enough sized up to offer some next week.
Seckel Pears- we still have a few.. reminder they will have scab surface damage.
NEW! Elstar Apples: This apple can be slightly russeted (has skin that can be rough in spots like a pear or russet potato). It's creamy white flesh has a balanced sweet/tart flavor with honey undertones and a mild acidity. Good for cooking. Makes a great applesauce. Flavor gets better after a few weeks in the fridge, so don't worry if you don't want to eat them right away.
Alkemene-Floral, lively, honeyed, mutation of Cox's Orange Pippin from Germany. Sooo sweet, but nice tartness as well. One of Mike's (my husband) favorite apples.
Arlet- Golden delicious & Idared cross. Intense complex flavor, sweet, spicy undertone. Aromatic, good for cooking
Fiesta-Sometimes marketed as a "Red Pippin", this apple is often described as nutty and aromatic. Great dessert apple, good for juice and hard cider. Can often have a slight russeting (rough skin like a russet potato). Yellow skin with orange to red striping. Good keeper.
Molly's Delicious- red delicious parentage, sweet over tart, juicy & crisp. fabulous for eating out of hand
