Winter in Wisconsin does not, thankfully, mean that the fresh produce has to end. We have a CSA share through December with additional "surprise" drops in January and February usually. And thank god because I've really become far too dependent on my share to actually buy produce at the store anymore. Those few months when I do, March and April, are really quite sad and radish filled (seemingly one of the few things always local at the co-op).
Yesterday, I picked up our first winter share of the season from Primrose Community Farm. This is our third year as members and it really is quite a spectacular share. It also requires quite spectacular arm muscles to lift and carry home. Yesterdays haul involved four grocery bags stuffed to the point of breaking (I'm actually surprised we made it intact) with potatoes, carrots, parsnips, onions, garlic, kale, lettuce (that's right! Lettuce in November!), cabbage, celeriac (when my fiance asked what it was, I told him it was an alien), sweet potatoes, and last but not least, 12 squash. 12!! This in addition to the two I still had sitting on the counter from my regular season share. This will challenge all my culinary creativity.
Two years ago, I had a falling out with winter squash. I hadn't ever reached the end of rope with any vegetable before but the squash just got to be too much. I couldn't eat it anymore. The thought of it, the mere sight of it, made by stomach churn and I ended up tossing most of them--furtively-- into the compost bin. Not this year. I just came home with a stack of squash cookery books from the library so I can hopefully work through our countertop "patch" before the malaise sets in.
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