One week of greens, before they all go bad from neglect.

Between the holidays (those would be my birthday and Christmas, of course) and a sick baby, produce piled up in the fridge and we lost all of the greens. Thankfully we have a composter, so they don’t go totally to waste when that happens; as with the fallen cakes and partly flourless cookies, I fear that keeping up with the CSA will be another thing that falls victim to the needs of the new little person in the house. Of course, not having any greens put the kibosh on my plan to make a greens fritatta for this week’s Dark Days Challenge meal. I am going to fall back on a favorite (Moroccan-style venison stew) and draw upon the freezer reserves in order to use what we do have.

The rest of what I have in the fridge is (until Thursday) is now:

• sweet potatoes (still three varieties, and not really in the fridge)
• one acorn squash
• shallots (I am planning to just buy some probably-not-local green beans to go with these, honestly)
• radishes (which I don’t like at all)
• sai sai (which is a sort of big radish thing that I am struggling to come up with a use for)
• turnips
• two leeks
• apples
• lemons and an orange
• carrots