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.

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.

[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....

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.)