Dear John,
Your mom and aunt are arriving later today. They’ve got the truck loaded with a dining room set, carefully restored after the flood. The set was purchased by your great-aunt at an estate sale in the ’60’s. Tomorrow the movers will come help unload. And then, the re-settling process will begin. I’m hopeful that with this delivery we’ll be better at getting the house into more permanent feel. Less of the boxes in the corners look.
For today, I’m about to start prepping the squash to be risotto. Figure that’s a meal that we can have on the stove whenever they make it in. And getting the squash prepped for use this week seems like a good strategy!
Today’s Box
- Butternut Squash
- Ginger
- Leeks
- Red Lacinato Kale
- Jonagold Apples
- Yellow Bartlett Pears
Things I think are in the fridge
- Plums
- Pears: Bartlett and Asian
- Apples
- Garden tomato
- Beet + beet greens
- Napa cabbage
- Ginger
- Cranberries
- Spaghetti squash
- Sweet potato
Coming in from the Garden
- Basil
- Tomatillos, maybe
- Roma tomatoes
- Peppers?
- Dahlias and marigolds and cosmos
- Rosemary
Open Preserves
- Preserved eggplant
- Lacto-fermenting green cherry tomatoes
- Lacto-fermented blueberry jalapeno hot sauce
- Pickled banana peppers
- Pickled banana peppers with oregano, garlic, and black pepper
- Pickled fennel stems with orange
- Spicy pickled fennel stems
- Radish kimchi
- Green tomato chutney
- Apple butter
- Mystery jelly (label rubbed off with grease)
- Applesauce
- Probably still more uninventoried
Meals to eat with company when we have our own food restrictions
- Butternut leek risotto from Six Seasons
- Braised cabbage and glass noodles
- Sweet potato tacos
- Kale and roasted squash salad
- Peanut butter and jelly
- Takeout sushi
Love you,
Sarah
Planning Inside The Box 