So far the winter share is going well, though we are coming into holiday travel season so we'll see if that lasts. We have some travel plans coming up, so delicate stuff runs the risk of getting lost in the shuffle.

Both lettuce and this gigantic bag of mizuna can really only be used for salads. Actually, It is possible that mizuna can be cooked, but we've never tried. If we get another huge bag like this I will have to ask the internet. More sweet potatoes. We had planed on making the samosas this week, but it didn't happen. We did make a sweet potato mash with curry flavors, but I can't find the recipe online and the physical one seems to have wandered off. It was very good, so I'll try to link it if we make it again. Blue potatoes This celeriac is going in a risotto this weekend. It is an odd recipe, with less stirring than usual, so we'll see how that goes.

Oh apples. These are going into our usual apple sauce, a new pizza recipe with this arugula, and no doubt many other things. We managed to get the apple drawer empty enough that we can put this week's apples in, which means we will be freeing up the counter for next week's apples. Yay? These leeks are going in the risotto with the celeriac. After spending an irritating amount of time peeling these sweet dumpling squash, I had an epiphany: Peeling them is foolish, so stuff those mofos. We have a few different acorn squash recipes that should adapt pretty well and save us from having to get into all the indentations on these suckers with a peeler or knife. We are roasting these beets for our favorite salad and used the greens in our winter green pizza (linked last week.)

CSA Winter Share 1

Winter share! Last time we did a winter share, we were buried under a pile of potatoes, had our car break down and lock us out at the pickup site in freezing temperatures when we had no coats, and discovered that we are incapable of eating two pounds of novelty cheese a month. What adventures does this year hold? Tune in to find out.

I am going to attempt to mix it up this time through and actually link in recipes where I can. We'll see how long that lasts.

More cabbage, this time in the form of an oddly shaped savoy cabbage. You can't really tell here, but it's very flat and wide. No idea what we will do with it, having just come off the six pound napa last week. This garlic has been added to the garlic chain in the closet. Though we still have a dozen or more heads in there, I do feel like we are going through it at a fair clip. We will probably use this zamboni rapini to keep our ice rink nice and smooth. We may also make some winter green pizza with it, a favorite recipe of ours. No specific plans for this arugula, so it'll probably end up in salad. I tossed these sweet onions into my onion bin, so hopefully they aren't that much different than the other half dozen varieties we have in there.

The very first time we got Brussels sprouts we tried roasting, and didn't much care for them. Now that we know that there are good preparations of them, we're going back to that well. Radishes for salad and snacking. More potatoes. More lettuce. Still odd to be getting so much so late. Oh apples. Apples, apples, apples. So much for getting fewer from the non-fruit shared winter share. We plan to make a new recipe for apple sauce this week, so we'll see how that goes. We are also taking advantage of fresh cranberries to clear out some pears from the apple drawer in the form of pear cranberry pie.