Category: Food

Cucumber-Lime-Spearmint Agua Fresca: A Perfect Summer Drink

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I harvested our first Marketmore cucumbers last week, just in time to counteract the deep heat and humidity of August with a cucumber version of Agua Fresca.

I’ve also made agua frescas with cantelopes or watermelons, but this cucumber recipe is my favorite.  I use spearmint from our Herb Garden for the mint mentioned in the recipe.

Kept in a glass pitcher in the frig, Cucumber Agua Fresca is my preferred drink while the farm produces cucumbers.  It’s almost worth dealing with the heat to have a tall cool glass when I come indoors!

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Hungarian Yellow Wax Peppers to Make Hungarian Lesco

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Last, year, I found a recipe for Hungarian Lesco that was so good, I decided to grow Hungarian Yellow Wax peppers this year so that I could make an even better sauce.

This recipe is similar to the one that I use.  Mark Bittman weights in here on Lesco.  It’s a tasty way to use peppers, tomatoes and garlic in a “base sauce” that perks up anything else you might have in the frig.  Last year, I cooked up quart containers of Lesco and put them in the chest freezer so that we could “eat summer” throughout the fall and winter.


If you’d like to make Lesco, we’ve got plenty of authentic peppers to make this dish — email me for details!

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