Browse Day: October 20, 2010

Eat your veggies!!

It’s recommended that we eat 5-9 servings of fruits and veggies per day and most of us (including myself) don’t really get that far.  In an effort to eat more and also experiment with new ingredients, we signed up for the “Farm Fresh to You” program.  We signed up for the small mixed box for $25 and we opted for once every 4 weeks for now.  Today our first shipment arrived and we got kale, beets!, spinach, apples, pears, green beans, tomatoes, and baby lettuce.

It’s all organic and the produce comes from local farms.  They send whatever is in season at the moment and you hope that you get stuff that you like.  Can’t wait to figure out how to cook the kale and beets.  Anyone have a good recipe?!

Yummy.

Jes and I had dinner at a new restaurant that opened nearby and I had a really yummy cauliflower creme brulee.  Sounded weird but I was intrigued and ordered it.  I certainly was not disappointed.  It was savory and smooth with a touch of sweetness from the thin sugar layer on top.  It also had with sunchoke escabeche and truffled wild arugula on top for extra flavor and texture.  The rest of the meal was just as delicious but this was by far the highlight.

Thanks!!

These days, the only thing I get in the mailbox are magazines, bills, and junk.  Yesterday, there was a package stuffed into the mailbox and it was a pair of flip-flops!! Woooooo!!!  After I wrote about the death of my last pair of Sanuks, my dear friends down the street ordered me a pair online.  They couldn’t find the black ones that I’ve been used to wearing but got me a pair of the cutest purple ones ever!!  Love the flower print on the backside of the straps.  Thanks to Ryan, Michelle, Jack, and Reese!!  Love you guys!!