Look! Thanksgiving dinner! Anyone who has ever been in my parents' house and seen the giant picture of me, as a 4-year-old, standing next to a live turkey, knows I have a sordid past with live turkeys (how was I supposed to know not all creatures want me to pet them!?). For that reason, I was a little nervous while sticking my camera lens into the cage to shoot this picture, but I really wanted to feature the extra skin over his beak. I wonder how one would go about finding the real name of that particular body part...Snood! Just looked it up at kidzone.com. Snood! What nice word.
The markets this week were very thin, of course, and it was cold - really cold. There were still a few diehards out there selling squash, apples, gourds, greens and cauliflower. I bought my last box of Toby Run shitake mushrooms for the year, and my last peppers, chiles, sprouts and onions from Dearsmans.
My CSA box this week included eggs, potatoes, bell peppers, arugula, greens, mixed lettuce, cauliflower, bok choy, scallions and bitter greens, which I used to make this yummy bitter green salad. There's nothing like it when eaten with or after a rich meal; I highly recommend it. This was a mix of radicchio and frisee with the bunch of arugula thrown in for good measure. Wash in several changes of water, spin dry, and dress liberally with olive oil, sprinkle over some nice sherry vinegar, cracked black pepper and a good shower of sea salt:
