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.
