I figure Darin will have a pretty good idea I’ll have gone ’round the bend when I start musing about going to cooking school or becoming a personal chef, making a week’s worth of food for a variety of clients. He was slightly concerned, for example, that I spent last night going through the entire archives of Chocolate & Zucchini, making notes about what I was going to cook. Well, I have an excuse: they looked tasty!
He was concerned to learn that I had signed us up for a biweekly half-order (vegetables and fruits) mixed box from Organic Express. I was all set to sign up to Planet Organic, which my brother-in-law subscribes to, but they don’t deliver to my area and I’d have to drive to pick up my box every week. I don’t think so. So when I saw an Organic Express truck going by my house, I logged on to their site and decided to give it a whirl. Advertising works, people. Advertising works.
When setting up the account, I said no cucumbers and cabbage. They are pointless foods and I won’t cook them, let alone eat them. There are other foods, such as spinach, that I have not as yet come to appreciate, but I’m working on it, okay? Pretty much everything else I can find some use for or Darin will eat (same difference).
Today was the first shipment, and I got:
- 10 small oranges
- 4 bananas
- 5 Fuji apples
- 2 Bosc pears
- 2 Anjou pears
- a gigantic head of broccoli
- 2 yams
- 5 or 6 red potatoes
- a head of carrots on the wee side (bigger than babies, much smaller than usual store carrots)
- a box of tiny cherry tomatoes
My first thought on looking at those tomatoes was, Darin will sure enjoy these! Then I remember: hey, I eat tomatoes now! I can eat these too. I have the feeling I’m missing an item or two on this list, but that’s a pretty good haul, I think. I will probably need to whip up a few fruit desserts (since I already had a kitchen full of recently-bought fruit), but I’m pretty sure I can make do with all these vegetables in the next week, let alone next two weeks.
Maybe I’ll have to go to a weekly shipment. And if that seems to be too much food, I can start a personal chef biz on the side…
Later: I see Derrick on his site (hey Derrick: add a Search function!) mentions some other, smaller CSAs in the area. So maybe I will have to check those out.