cellio | winter CSA, week 2

Good haul today. I'm glad I brought two cloth bags; it was easier to distribute the load that way than it would have been to carry the box.

dozen free-range eggs (I assume it's the chickens that are actually free-range, not that the eggs are ambulatory)
head hydroponic lettuce (same type as last time)
one large butternut squash (estimate 4 pounds)
one Celebration squash
six Rome apples
two pieces celeriac root
four medium red onions
six small purple potatoes ("Magic Molly")
two daikon radishes (I think; they said we'd get either daikon or "green meat" radishes and these look more like the pictures of the former)
8oz chive and onion chevre (with hechsher!)
17oz jar apple butter
expected but not present: garlic

I sent email asking about the garlic, wondering if it had been delayed, and they wrote back right away and said the farm hadn't sent them quite enough so some boxes didn't get it, but they'd have a bag with my name on it at next week's pickup. (It's a biweekly CSA, except that they moved the pickups in the week of Dec. 25 a week earlier, so next week.)

My choir has a pot-luck dinner next week, so I'll do something with the butternut squash for that (not sure what yet, but presumably it'll involve roasting). I plan to pickle at least one of the two radishes; I love pickled daikon and have never made it before (have never actually bought fresh daikon). Celeriac was new to me; I used one tonight to make this dish with celeriac and peas and it was tasty. I'm planning to use the other to make this mash with potatoes and horseradish. Not with the purple potatoes, though; that would look weird. Those I'll roast, probably, maybe with rosemary.

I sometimes bake acorn squash filled with apples; on the other hand, squash is nice with savory herbs too. I don't need to decide right away. One way or another, I know what to do with all of this.

winter CSA, week 2

no subject