Food, mostly

But first, a few quick commute notes: The turkey was out this morning, hanging around under an underhang to be out of the rain. Also, earlier this week they finally installed a sculpture in that area outside 1 Hampshire St., a tall metal spike with stuff high up that makes me think a bit of a planet with rings.

This week cooking for Shabbat was more of a challenge than usual: I need food for myself on Shabbat (which starts around 4 these days), plus I'm hosting a large dinner not long after Shabbat, so most of the food needed to be prepped before 4 today. The other factors included wanting to get through a bunch of the veggies already inundating my house before this afternoon's wintershare pickup, and something the guest of honor tomorrow would like. ( Descriptions within. )

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Winter share, second pickup

• two-thirds of a pound of spinach
  
• a head of red cabbage
  
• a pound of carrots
  
• two and a half pounds of white potatoes
  
• two pounds of sweet potatoes
  
• two pounds of onions (red and/or yellow)
  
• a head of lettuce (I got red)
  
• a bunch of rosemary
  
• a pound of parsnips
  
• a butternut squash
  
• two heads of garlic

Also, bulk veggie pickup, two half bushels of yellow onions, and two pounds of garlic. Unfortunately, there was also supposed to be a half bushel of fingerling potatoes, and they didn't drop that off. And according to the newsletter, the bulk potatoes are done for the year. Phooey.

For the record, the butternut attack on my ankle was not my fault: someone else dropped it.