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CSA, fall style

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The CSA is winding down for the season. There are only two weeks left after today. It’s the end of October but you wouldn’t know it from the variety of peppers still available on the order form. The order for next week is the first order in months that doesn’t have some sort of tomato on it. Here’s what was in this week’s box.

1 lb of green snap beans
2 large sweet potatoes
1 bunch Lacinato (dinosaur) kale
5 mixed sweet peppers
2 heads of broccoli
1 bunch Fuyo Shumi (baby Pac Choi)
1 bunch Swiss chard
2 8 oz bags salad greens mix

This week was a fruit share week and the bag had 8 or 9 each of apples and pears and a quart of apple cider.

I still have more potatoes from the last few weeks than I know what to do with and at least 8 large sweet potatoes. I still have a bunch of chard from last week, five or six beets, some turnips I may as well just compost, and half a bag of mixed salad greens. I’m probably forgetting something, but at least with the garden I don’t have to feel too badly if some veggies go to waste.

Last night I roasted a head of cauliflower. Tonight I’m going to use the two bunches of chard in a gratin with gouda and panko breadcrumbs. I’m also going to cook some potatoes, at least a pound of them, but I haven’t quite decided whether to roast them along with a chicken I’m brining or if I should mash them with buttermilk I’ve got leftover from Bob’s birthday cake.

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