In my box this week:

• Baby Blue Hubbard Squash
• Celery
• Curly Parsley
• Gold Potatoes
• Hakurei Turnips
• Lacinato Kale
• Orange Carrots
• Red Butterhead Lettuce

Storage: The squash goes in the squash pile. Parsley in a glass of water in the fridge. Potatoes in the pantry, but hakurei turnips are slightly more delicate than white turnips so those go in the fridge. Separate the greens from the carrots and the turnips. The greens are edible.

Prep: I am astounded to hear that Thanksgiving is next week. While I find that many of LFFC’s produce will happily survive more than a week, I understand if not everyone appreciates a slightly shriveled carrot. Fortunately, we’ve got 2/3 of mirepoix (carrot, celery, onion) in this box that will easily survive until next week and any aesthetic concerns will be diced away.

Pumpkin pie doesn’t need to be made with classic round pie pumpkins, you can use any squash. Roast, puree, and fridge or freeze (depending on how far ahead you’re prepping).

Do you have a future stock stock in the freezer? I store things like kale stems, lettuce and cabbage ends, sad looking carrots, and turnip greens in the freezer. Make stock now, before you need it.

Hakurei turnips: If you’ve been reading, you know I like braising these in copious amounts of butter and serving with eggs on toast. If you have bok choy left from Week 2, try this sautéed bok choy and hakurei turnip dish.

Carrots: Honey balsamic roasted carrots would be an excellent replacement or addition to sweet potatoes with marshmallows at Thanksgiving. This recipe also calls for fresh parsley. It’s likely your parsley will make it to next week if properly stored, but another way to keep herbs is freezing it in olive oil in ice cube trays (for easy portioning. If you really want, you could freeze a whole pint of parsley olive oil.)

Parsley: I use this chimichurri recipe frequently. I’ll also supplement the parsley with the carrot tops since I have them.

Lacinato kale: Also known as Tuscan kale and can be used as salad kale but also good for cooked recipes, like this squash and kale soup or this beans and kale soup.