This and That

Here's what we got in our boxes this week:

Butternut squash

Carrots

Lettuce

Escarole

Kale

Spinach

Broccoli

Radishes

Apples

Grapes

I was happy to discover that my 2 year old loves roasted  butternut squash - so that makes 2.5 of us in the family (my husband eats it, but it isn't his favorite).

We never got through a bunch of swiss chard we got last week - so I've just finished sauteeing it up with some onions and garlic.  I'm going to make ravioli out of them using wonton wrappers.  My favorite quick-and-easy trick!  It's not local or organic blahblahblah, so, see?  We're not nazi about these things ;)  I did buy my wonton wrappers at a mom & pop shop, though.  That counts for shopping local in my mind!  Anyway - the kids are onto the fact that there is something *green* in the ravioli - so they have started turning their noses up at it.  That's fine with me, I will make a batch of these and freeze them and bring it to work for lunch.  What worked last time was to boil them, toss with marinara, and then freeze.

I'm also in the process of prepping a mock Thanksgiving dinner for tomorrow.  We bought a turkey breast (bone-in) - man are those suckers huge!  We are not having Thanksgiving at our place this year.  Half the reason I wanted to have this mock dinner is to make things the way I like (control issues, anyone?) and the second major reason is because I want to make turkey stock with the remains.  I will either make escarole (see box contents above!) soup with it or use it to make the stuffing I am bringing to Thanksgiving dinner.

Tonight's dinner?  Wild salmon with broccoli.

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