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

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

In this week's box...

One issue with nutritional advice is that people don't interpret it correctly. When people hear "eat more vegetables" they think of vegetables like carrots (which is the most popular answer when people are asked to list vegetables). But what we are supposed to hear is eat more leafy greens. Well, we are going to be extremely healthy this week, because we got THREE different kinds of leafy greens from our CSA.

I'm not the biggest fan of greens, but my boyfriend absolutely loves them, the more bitter the better, and he has been waiting for a CSA box like this. I guess I'm lucky to have him around so that he'll cook healthy food for me and make sure I eat it!

collard greens

turnip greens

rapini (so says the box, but my boyfriend disagrees)

4 apples

1 butternut squash

1 green pepper

2 sweet potatoes

9 beets

9 carrots

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FebruaNovember 3, 2009 at 8:10 PM
This box has my name all over it. I LOVE it all. mmmmmmmm
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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.

Aphorisms from the Professor: Brillat-Savarin

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

In this week's box...

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