Kitchen hazards from Shmini Atzeret

Part of an irregular series of articles. Already featured perils: garlic, tomato soup, and corkscrews.

One of the five-day candles I used over yom tov had the wick too close to the glass, which lead to the glass breaking. Of course, I saw the large pieces of glass when I walked into the kitchen barefoot in the morning, so it shouldn't be a surprise that I managed to find a small shard in my heel. Actually, the strange part was that there wasn't more glass than that on the floor. Was annoying for walking for a day or two, though.

And then there was the cooking of lunch. Reheating, mostly, given that I'd already made the soup to which I wanted to add sausages. ( possibly squickful text... )

I am definitely going to be more wary of frozen foods in the future!

Farm share week 17, and Boston Organics

• three quarters of a pound of spinach
  
• two and a half pounds of sweet peppers (long and bell type, in most colors)
  
• a head of radicchio (I went for the more traditional red and white rather than the purplish green kind)
  
• a head of Savoy cabbage
  
• a stalk of broccoli
  
• four hot peppers (I got jalapeno types, not the longer thin ones)
  
• two and a half pounds of carrots (lots of huge ones)
  
• a pound and a quarter of yellow onions
  
• two pounds of potatoes
  
• a winter squash (ranging from carnival to acorn with a number of other similarly-sized ones available)
  
• a bunch of rosemary
  
• a bunch of radishes or a pound and a half of red-skinned turnips (I took the latter, not being particularly fond of radishes)

( Boston Organics )

Preliminary thoughts for Shabbat dinner: baked delicata squash with some interesting filling (definitely not all sweet, either; maybe something with walnuts and a bit of cayenne and cumin? or sauteed onions and spinach with nutmeg and pine nuts?); roasted root veggies (potatoes and/or sweet potatoes and/or carrots, possibly with rosemary); mashed neeps; steamed broccoli with garlic and ginger; cabbage something (absolutely necessary, given the cabbage backlog; not really sure what, though. Perhaps some kind of cabbage and apple chicken?). Other ideas?