my boyfriend cooks for me: In this week's box...

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

In this week's box...

1 eggplant

5 hot peppers

2 apples

5 turnips

3 green peppers

1 onion

2 butternut squash

5 beets

We are really excited about our box this week - lots of items we haven't received yet. We also learned that the leaves of turnips and beets should be cut before storing, otherwise they will suck the moisture out of the root. The leaves need to be used within a few days, but the roots can last for at least a week or so (which is good news, given all the produce we have accumulated - seriously, we have an entire drawer in our fridge that is filled with peppers and apples!)

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VelvaOctober 28, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Absolutely delicious! You guys did great with your farm box!
Can your boyfriend help me :-)...Went to the North Georgia mountains this past weekend. I brought home 20lbs of fresh apples, 10lbs of sweet potatoes, jars of chow-chow and 10 dozen eggs! What the heck! I could not resist and now I better get cooking!
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Foodie with Little Thyme!October 28, 2009 at 10:04 PM
I want a farm box so I can make yummy dishes like this.
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My boyfriend loves to cook and is very creative in the kitchen. Although the internet is often consulted, he doesn't use recipes. He does most (ok, just about all) of the "heavy lifting" documented here. He also happens to be an amazing artist - which may contribute to his excellent food plating and presentation - so check out his art store on Etsy (and see some samples at the bottom of the page).

I perform important tasks (mainly peeling and chopping onions) and provide ideas gleaned from hours of reading food blogs, recipes and menus online, as well as gentle suggestions (i.e. "Isn't the [ingredient] going to go bad soon? Maybe we should use [ingredient] tonight..."). I am also Head Photographer and Blogmaster.

About Our Blog

In an article in the New York Times Michael Pollan said that we spend more time watching "sport" cooking shows than we do actually cooking. And he said this like it is a bad thing. We hope that this blog proves that these shows, while not explicitly instructive, can be a wonderful inspiration.

Of course no one has the time or resources to cook like an Iron Chef all the time. Sometimes we decide to be adventurous and try more elaborate dishes, but generally we want to show that it isn't difficult to put together interesting, creative, and healthy meals any night of the week. We don't make a weekly plan, we don't decide what to make and then go get ingredients. We buy random fun and interesting things that catch our eye at the grocery store, and then figure out how we can use them.

So don't look here for recipes (for the most part the description of what we ate is all there is to it - "mashed turnip with horseradish" is mashed turnip with horseradish!), look here for everyday ideas and inspiration.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

In this week's box...

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