Hellgate CSA

I always had trouble cooking brown rice until I ran across a new method in Saveur. Although we haven't received brown rice in our shares, I cook it so often to go along with other items from our share, I thought it worth posting. This method is very different from any other way I've cooked rice in the past, but it delivers the best brown rice I've ever made!

Unfortunately, Lewis Waite had an issue with the turkey orders. Please see their message below for instructions on confirming that your order was correctly processed:

IF YOU HAVE PLACED A HOLIDAY TURKEY ORDER BEFORE OCT 14TH, you can use the PLACE AN ORDER menu choice as usual to place a new order for the additional items you want. If you already have an order for additional items, use the menu choice SEE MY EXISTING ORDERS to add other items as usual until your order deadline. Your orders are intact and were not changed.

Tuesday, November 10
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
Reading, Slides and Signing

Novella Carpenter grows fruit and vegetables on a vacant lot and shares them with her neighbors. She also raises (and dispatches) chicken, ducks and rabbits. Meet Novella and hear her gritty, sometimes brutal, tale of farm life on the mean streets of Oakland. Her memoir, by turns joyous and sad, is refreshingly honest. A few of her Brooklyn farming friends will be on hand to talk about their projects too. Read more about Novella in a recent New York Times interview.

In case you don't want to just eat the grapes we received this week, think about making this super-easy, tasty juice.

We got 3 lbs of pears this week! If you're wondering what to do with them, may I suggest the following recipe, adapted from Pam Anderson's USA Weekend column recipe.

1 tablespoon butter per pear

1/4 cup lightly packed brown sugar per pear

however many pears you want, halved and cored (and peeled, if you want). 1 pear per person.