Browse Month: October 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!!

Mind the Gap

As some of you know, I LOVE maps and public transportation maps are just as cool.  On our trip to London, we spent a lot of time on the London Underground and the “Mind the Gap” announcements and reminders everywhere cracked me up.

So naturally, I was delighted to find this mug on our last day in the city.  It looks great next my NYC Subway mug.  I’ll have to post photos of that one soon.

Saturday Supper

We invited the Sokol-Juns over for dinner last night and Ryan challenged Jes to make a non-beef meal.  So we went into our Ad Hoc at Home book and made some scrumptious crispy chicken thighs over fennel and olives.  I was a bit worried about eating fennel since I hate the taste of black licorice but they were cooked enough that I just kept eating them.

We also had new potatoes and asparagus on the side.  The potatoes were made with the fresh herbs from my “garden”.  Heh heh.

I also made some box brownies and Jack (and his dad) loved them.

You really can’t beat brownies and ice cream. Yum yum!

Little Baby Reese slept through dinner and Koa kept trying to get a better sniff of her.  Fortunately, Jack has learned to be a Big Brother and said “Don’t eat baby sister, Koa!”  It was pretty darn cute.

Switcharoo

For a while now, we’ve been talking about getting a new couch but it’s just not time yet.  So instead, we moved the furniture around in the livingroom.  One of the best things about rearranging stuff is that you get to clean the floor and vacuum up all the dust and hairballs.  Basically, we rotated the couch and tv around, which opened up the room a bit and we now have a full floor-to-ceiling view of the outside.

The dog still has a cozy nook for his window-side bed and my plants have more light.  Dog also seems to like sitting in front of the window and watching the people below.  We’ve had a week at home with this change and I think I really like it.  I find myself more on the couch instead of the floor and the condo feels bigger.  It’s a nice change without having to spend big bucks on a new couch.