How to use your CSA box

I have a confession: I have no idea what's in my CSA box this week, and, I'm confident I'm not alone.  Sure, I can recognize the sugar snap peas and carrots, the lacinato kale with its pebbled dark green leaves, the baby collards (which we'll combine with cream and the last of our overwintered shallots for this creamed collards recipe), but some stump me: the fragrant and prickly leaves I pulled from our box today, or the odd and gnarled roots that appear from time to time.  If you're lucky, the vegetables might be well labeled and some CSAs even slip recipe cards into your box; but most of  you, like me, will be navigating your box in wonder.  So if you're ever stuck for how to prepare the mystery vegetables that arrive in your CSA box, try these simple methods.