Final CSA/New Game

[storyjen]

In this, the last CSA box of the year, we got:

• salad greens
• radishes
• fingerling potatoes
• a head of cauliflower
• celery
• carrots
• parsnips
• a rutabaga
• a butternut squash
• a head of garlic
• sweet potatoes
• apples

I traded with our share partners, such that they got the cauliflower and the fingerling potatoes and the butternut squash, and we got the rutabaga and the parsnips and the sweet potatoes, as well as the radishes because they never want the radishes.

We spent the first part of this week finishing up the root vegetable and sausage soup and lima bean risotto from Sunday, adding the salad greens to round things out.  I'm essentially vamping tomorrow, because Thursday is Thanksgiving and Friday is date night - so I'll make the gumbo, finally, with the last of the salad greens as a side dish.  Then I'll make a root vegetable and chicken bake on Saturday, which will use all our root veggies and most of our garlic as well.  Sometime next week, I'll make a shrimp and radish curry.

In the weeks to follow, there'll be borscht, and the fish/cabbage/potato/apple bake, and possibly some stuffed cabbage leaves.  (Hmm, and maybe a black bean soup for the last of the celery and green peppers?)  As for the sweet potatoes, some will be for Joy, and probably some will go in soup, and there may be a pie at some point.  That will be the last of the CSA - and as I look at it, it will last us several weeks more....

I've decided on a new food game for winter, but that will be the subject of another post.