eating local this winter

Today I picked up our first share of the winter CSA that we subscribed to for the next 5 months. It is very exciting.
The produce is over flowing in a huge crate. It is supposed to last us a month. It included:
pears, apples, butternut squash, buttercup squash, potatoes, onions, garlic, yellow carrots, regular carrots, turnip, beets, cranberries, leaks, and kale.
It is exciting to figure out what to do with it all. It just feels right buying produce locally from organic growers.
I have a cookbook about eating seasonally that should help me figure out what in the world to do with this food.
http://www.amazon.com/Simply-Season-World-Community-Cookbook/dp/0836192974

I'm hoping to look online and find some good recipes as well, especially for Kale, Turnips, and Beats since I don't think my husband would like any of them in an ordinary way. Honestly I probably wouldn't either. Though I am a little more willing to imagine that I might actually like them.

Besides getting this great food. I had a great time with my 15 month old. She was having a great day and enjoyed so many moments of it so emmensly it just rubbed off on us.

I am so blessed. Life is full of sacred moments. I am trying to really take them all in.