Farm Report August 16

My second planting of scallions and salad greens has sprouted, and the Brandywine tomatoes are finally showing me the slightest blush of pink. If I'm lucky, they'll bear fruit through the middle of November. I cut back the nopales cactus weeks ago, and somehow that stimulated new pads, which now I also want to harvest, freeze dry and put away for a rainy day. Some of the nopales fruit seems to be going from green to yellow.

I'm really enjoying the eggplant, it's nice to have another vegetable to eat, especially because it's so different from the rest. I've been picking the yellow squash sooner, partly so I don't have a huge volume to process every day. They grow monstrously large very quickly, and if I start getting lots of tomatoes, I just won't have the time or energy to deal lots of squash at the same time.

Here's the egglant recipe I tried tonight. When you cut the eggplant into long strips, brush them with oil, saute and then bake them, they stay firm.
http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/mediterranean-chicken-with-eggplant/Detail.aspx