Bountiful Baskets: August 3

Oh, wow.  These early mornings might kill me yet.

But I always have so much fun at Bountiful Baskets, and we always get so much great stuff.  I think I'll continue to contribute for a basket...

This week, I got two baskets, plus the Mexican veggie pack.  Here is a photo of ONE basket:

All together, in the two baskets, I got:

• 2 heads Living Lettuce 
• 2 bunches celery
• 5 one-pound bags of carrots
• 5 huge yellow onions
• 6 gorgeous green peppers
• 2 bunches mustard greens
• 10 organic tomatoes on the vine
• 16 nectarines
• 3 Tuscan melons
• 19 bananas, most of them being quite big

It was a heavy, heavy two baskets this time around.

What will we do with this haul?

• Fruit will all be eaten.  
• Except I think I'll can the nectarines, but we'll see.
• Lettuce, celery, carrots, onions, green peppers and tomatoes are generally just staples that simply get used.  No planning necessary.
• Mustard greens?  I have no clue.  People keep telling me I can saute 'em up and serve them like spinach.  Ewww.  I don't serve spinach that way as I think it is disgusting.  So I don't have any idea at all.
• In reality, the tomatoes and at least some green peppers are going to combine with my Mexican pack to become salsa.  
• And (another in reality confession) since I have so much celery and carrots, I'll be chopping up those and onions, in equal amounts, sauteing in olive oil, and freezing.  I add this to all kinds of stuff... spaghetti sauce, casseroles, crockpot dishes, anything I think of...

My Mexican pack was so very pretty:

It includes:

• one enormous avocado
• one garlic bulb
• two huge yellow onions
• 2 lemons
• 3 big mild peppers
• 4 jalepeno peppers
• 5 tomatillos
• 5 cayenne peppers
• 10 itty bitty limes

 The Mexican pack is mostly going towards salsa and guacamole.