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Guess the dictator or sit-com character

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In case you have nothing to do this fine Saturday day, hie thee over to Guess the Dictator or Sit-com character. Make sure you know enough about your dictator to answer the questions correctly: I started with Suharto and ended at Pervez Musharraf. I’m just sayin’.

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I do it for you, people, I do it for you.

Presenting….The Sawyer Song! in honor of Sawyer, from Lost.

I showed that to Darin, who was open-mouthed for a while, until he uttered the title of this entry.

Box o’ food

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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.