Perhaps your refrigerator resembles mine this week.  Without thoughtful intervention we’ll be staring down a compost heap pretty quick.  A mismatched assortment of vegetable orphans has been accumulating—ingredients left from this meal or that.  There’s a pair of gnarly carrots, half a head of cauliflower, a few stray button mushrooms and a lonely turnip.  Oh, and a fat cabbage wedge hiding under a nearly empty bag of spinach in the back corner.  Each bit on its own doesn’t amount to much, but taken together, this motley veggie crew might yield something brilliant.  A stir-fry perhaps or a pot of soup.  An imaginative salad or slightly crazy slaw.

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