5 posts tagged “food”

Oooh, this Tuesday is the first veggie pickup of the season - time for some gooood eats! I can't wait to see what we get! The only problem is then I never know till Tuesday what to plan for meals for the rest of the week, and today's the only day I have time to grocery-shop. So I have to try to remember what I had gotten in the habit of last year... just stock the fridge and pantry with things that can be combined with whatever yumminess they toss our way. Meaning just keep on hand things like rice, grains (couscous, quinoa, etc), beans, veggie stock, chicken, turkey, cheese (though this year we're getting a local cheese every 2 weeks, and also I signed up for a whole local organic free-range chicken once a month, so that should be fun!)   I especially love the part where they send us things I've never tried before, with some ideas on what to do with them. For example, last year we had quite a lot of radicchio for about a month, which I'd only ever had little bits of in salads before, but I learned how to soak them to remove the bitterness, and then how to use them in various recipes, including grilling them, and also an awesome potato salad. Last summer was also the first time I really ever made fritattas with fresh arugula, oh so yummy! My mouth is watering now. :-)

Desert Pepper salsa

We just finished off a jar of Desert Pepper Trading Company's "Corn, Black Bean, & Roasted Red Pepper" salsa, with a bag of blue corn / flax seed tortilla chips. Most excellent! This salsa was labeled "medium", but just remember that's the El Paso idea of "medium", so it was on the hot side (not a bad thing, of course). But it had a great flavor, and nice thick consistency, besides being made with only natural ingredients.

I'll have to try some of their other varieties.

The contents of our weekly organic veggie box from Kretschmann's...

Oct 23 veggies

Fresh new spinach again, some other kind of greens, cauliflower, more radishes, lots o' peppers, more carrots, more potatoes, a couple onions, a couple squashes, and of course more apples.

Yummy! Too bad there are only 2 of us... we still have food left from last week (as usual).

Ben & Jerry's Crème Brûlée ice cream. Oh my. Vanilla, caramel, little bits of carmelized sugar...

Well, not exactly, but a lovely evening at Kaya ...

We (the four of us) met L and her friend Mahnaz (& her husband & daughter) at 7:00 last Tuesday for a fun evening of delicious food (& drink) and good conversation. L & I had Earl Grey marTEAnis, mmm mmm! Then A & I shared a dish of seared sea scallops, with some sort of absolutely wonderful chutney, and I had the seared salmon entree, which was served with watercress on top of cheese encrusted yucca (I think) - also fantastic. AU got to talk with Mahnaz' husband about DC & we talked a good bit of politics in general, which is always interesting when the conversants have first-hand experience.

A very entertaining dinner!