Winter share, 10 of 11

[magid]

• two pounds of potatoes
  
• two pounds of purple-skinned potatoes
  
• four pounds of carrots
  
• two pounds of parsnips (spring dug)
  
• a jar of giardiniera (from Kitchen Garden Farm; not hechshered, so swapped for two more pounds of mixed potatoes; I don't really need more pickles, but the cauliflower part was particularly enticing, because I never have enough cauliflower to can any for later)
  
• a bag of mixed salad greens (perhaps a pound?)
  
• two pounds of spinach

First thoughts: I have not been keeping up with the spinach; perhaps mashed potatoes with spinach will help fix that? Also, salad on 3/15 seems apropos (Caesar salad for the ides of March :-) ). Otherwise, continue to work my way through all the roots, which are forgiving for storage purposes.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Bwee, Caesar salad for 3/15. :D

Are the potatoes just purple skinned or purple all the way in?

[magid]

Skin only, as I discovered last time. Also discovered: the purple-skinned ones are much better for baking than boiling/steaming; something about their solidity is greater than some other types.

[minoanmiss]

makes a note for farmer's market season

[magid]

I wouldn't use this info for the farmer's market, because I don't know which variety of purple-skinned-only potatoes these actually are; there might be lots of other ones that are just fine for these preparations....

Hmm ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

If you like smoothies, that's one way to make spinach disappear quickly. Our favorite recipe also has a ton of fruit in it -- green grapes, pineapple, a lime or a kiwi, and so on.

Green curry is also good, and comes in various options. Saag paneer has little chunks of cheese in it. Others use chunks of potato and other vegetables.

Re: Hmm ...

[magid]

I don't do much with smoothies; I prefer to chew my food. And I like spinach, actually - it's just the washing and checking and chopping take a lot more time than, say, cutting up a root vegetable. Once I've gotten it ready, I'm happy to have it take a prominent place. (Basically, I've gotten lazy with the easy availability of frozen chopped spinach I can just toss into things.)