week 18!

Our third to last delivery brought us beets, celery, broccoli raab, green peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, mizuna, parsley, and apples!!

The apples were a nice surprise. Nothing says fall to me like apples. Growing up it was always a family tradition around this time of year to take a drive out to the nearest apple orchard to pick and eat apples. So I have great memories of apples and it means that fall is really here.

Marissa found a great recipe, Orecchiette with Broccoli Raab that I made today. It's really delicious and really fast and easy. We had some leftover pancetta that I cooked up with the garlic which gave it a great flavor (honestly isn't everything better with pork fat?) but I think this recipe would be great without it too.

I had a lot of fun cooking with the green peppers this week too since I decided to make Stuffed Peppers. I used the Italian style pork sausage that we got this past Sunday from Cedar Valley. I didn't add the egg (you probably should) or the breadcrumbs (didn't have any) that the recipe called for so I substituted chopped almonds in their place. And instead of rosemary I used sage that we still had from a past week and some of this weeks parsley. According to this recipe it looks to me like the meat filling is very similar to a recipe for meatloaf so feel free to make all the additions and subtractions you'd like. A lot of times rice is added to the meat mixture, some of the other things I thought that might be good to add are raisins, cheese, or mushrooms (though maybe not all together) its really limitless. If somebody has a great recipe for stuffed peppers or has ideas for me on different things I could add to future stuffed peppers I'd love to hear it. Have a great week!