By Josh Furman

This is a great blueprint for a Kimchi that can be made throughout the growing season. A more traditional Kimchi can be made with napa cabbage and daikon radish, but the recipe is incredibly flexible, and allows you to try whatever ingredients you find in your CSA box or at the farmers market. Napa cabbage can replace bok choy, green onions can replace garlic scapes, all radish/no radish, all carrot/no carrot, throw in some kohlrabi….the opportunities are endless! 

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Some love it. Others hate it. Few are in between. Introducing, the most polarizing plant of all: the cilantro. While its leaves have taken up most of the limelight, the plant’s aromatic roots have been almost forgotten by the culinary world.
Not anymore.
We’re here to share some delicious cilantro root recipes that will be irresistible to even those who detest cilantro. 

Running out of ideas for using up all of those extra leafy greens and herbs from your garden or CSA? There are many options for utilizing a bumper crop of greens, and we’ll be covering many of them on the UW Farm blog this summer. For part one of Making the Most of Greens we’re going to focus on pounded and pureed sauces; which are simple, freeze easily, don’t require any cooking to make (if we have another heat wave you are going to want to stay away from that stove!), and can help to use up all sorts of ends and bits that you may have previously thrown in the compost bin. 

If you are a member of our fabulous farm CSA then you have been receiving the freshest produce that the season offers plus recipe ideas for the past five weeks, but for those of you that shop at Seattle area farmers markets or buy seasonal produce at the grocery store, here are some links to recipes from the web that will help you make the most of your July fruits and veggies! 

During our November potluck, Josh Furman demonstrated how to make all sorts of delicious things with squash, because, well, it’s that time of year. Here are his recipes, as promised:
Roasted Winter Squash Salad

2-3 winter squash sliced
1 onion sliced into wedges
1/2 tablespoon sumac and 1/2 tablespoon nigella seeds (optional)
2 tablespoons sliced almonds or other crushed nuts such as pistachios.