Winter share, 9 of 11

Boxed share again, so I pulled out the kitchen scale.

• 2 smallish bags of spinach
  
• 4 dried hot peppers (looks like two different varieties, but the email is not helpful here)
  
• almost 3 lb beets (3 large beets)
  
• almost 7 lb carrots
  
• 3 heads of what the email said was Savoy cabbage, but looks a lot more like Taiwanese flat cabbage (one tiny, one small, one medium, about 5 lb)
  
• a jar of giardiniera (swapped for more potatoes because lack of kosher certification)
  
• almost 10 lb potatoes (both my original ones and the swapped ones)

First thoughts: all the roasted roots. Do the pickle thing already, darn it! Baked roots under a protein (fish/poultry). Various cabbage and carrot slaws. Carrot soup. Carrot halwa. Carrots baked with lemon tahini dressing. Any further carrot suggestions?

Food court

I’ve been at $CurrentJob for almost four and a half years. Thursday, for the first time since I started working there, the street-facing half of the first floor was open, a new food court*. I was excited because it includes a new Clover location, a year and a half after the previous Kendall location closed (because the landlord jacked the rent up too high), and it also means there won’t be any more construction noise (the drilling was horrible, even floors above). Unfortunately, when I got home I found a post in a local kosher group noting that the new place doesn’t currently have certification, and the guy behind the counter yesterday didn’t have any idea of when or whether it might happen, so I’ve emailed both the company and the guy who certifies the others. It would be very nice to have a kosher option near work without having to hop on the T. Here’s hoping.

* It’s an odd term; I feel like it should refer to something like a cross between Judge Judy and Veggie Tales.