regular boxes: 1# beans, 1 bunch carrots, 1 1/2# red onions, 2 garlic, 3# russet tates, 1 mix root bunch, 1 bibb lettuce, 2 fennel, 1 bunch leeks, some sugar snap peas.
The mix root bunch contains a long white daikon radish, 1 beet, 1 rutabega, 1 turnip (small boxes have a pale yellow turnip, regular boxes have a purple top turnip). You can tell the rutabega from the turnip by the top. Rutabega tops are smooth and blueish, turnips are green and rough (pokey). My thought is that you can use the mix roots and carrots and potatoes to make a soup or to roast all together and enjoy the different flavors beside each other. The tops can be used to make a nice broth or add them chopped in small pieces to the soup. The tops should be cut off the roots and stored in a bag if you don't use them right away. They will not keep as long as the roots will. The tops are also good for juicing.
The potatoes haven't been washed and they and the on ions and garlic can be kept outside the refrigerator.
A Good Root Soup Recipe
Next week is the last regular season box! We will put sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, another winter squash and some more perishable foods in it. Please remember to bring boxes and clothe bags back. We are terribly low on the bags and didn't have enough to use for this weeks' boxes. If you have alot of them, please bring them back. We wash them so do not worry about washing them first!
Hope you have a good week!
Pictured below are Cate and Hayley who have been picking your vegetables all season.
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