Year Round Gardening--WIth Unusual Veggies

One practical aspect of spring-and garden dreaming I'm doing is trying new foods.  I bought The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year by Niki Jabbour for my husband for Christmas, but I am starting to realize that I might have purchased it for myself.  Anyway, I figured that if this woman who lives in Canada can garden year-round, I should be able to at least stretch the growing season out here in the Midwesterm state where I live. 

The problem is that most of the vegetables that she marks as winter crops are ones I've never heard of.  So I have made two lists.  The first is the list of vegetables that I am already willing to eat.  (My beloved accuses me of being singularly unadventurous...)

tomatoes

potatoes

lettuce

carrots

beans

peas

broccoli

cucumber

celery

corn

melons

chives

onions

basil

garlic

parsley

cabbage

spinach

sage

I am willing to try:

arugula

kohlrabi

leeks

mache

pak choi

Swiss chard

tatsoi

parsnips (maybe)

rutabagas (maybe)

He bought arugula at the grocery store on Saturday, so we'll see how that goes....