The Produce Box

Today I received my first Produce Box delivery! This is a group which delivers locally grown fruits & vegetables from a farm in Dunn, NC. So, weekly throughout the growing season I'll get a box of fresh food! I'm doing this to ... 1) live more greenly by buying local, and 2) live more healthily by trying new things.

The outside of the delivery box ... I send this back each week with a check and they deliver it to my front porch full of veggies!

Today's box contained pecans, locally made whole grain bread, sweet potatoes, spring onions, a cabbage, hydroponic bibb lettuce and sweet basil and parsley in pots to grow at home.A picture of the sweet potatoes that were under the bread.

So, what did we have for dinner? I made a chicken casserole, and when I got back from the gym (and got some advice from my friend Laura), I made a carrot/onion/cabbage boil, seasoned with Salamida's Garlic Pinch and pepper. Ok, it was definately edible. I can't say I crave it, but then it is a vegetable. I did like it, and I will make it again. I only used 1/4 of the cabbage, so there's more to go this week! I did not know that cabbage could have such a fresh spicy smell. I did like trying a new veggie!! And a green leafy one at that! I also peeled and sliced one sweet potato and shook it in a baggie with olive oil and Salamida's Garlic Pinch and roasted it at 425 degrees for about 8 mins (in the new convection toaster oven). It made terrific sweet potato chips which Gary and I liked, but the boys did not. But, they tried them, and that's the first step.

Tomorrow, we go for the Bibb lettuce for lunch!