CSA

CSA Vegetable Box, originally uploaded by zannect.

Dave and I joined a Winter CSA a few weeks ago, and it's been awesome. It's all organic produce from farms on the East Coast (including a citrus farm down in Florida), collected and boxed by a farm out in Western MA. Every Wednesday we pick up an 8-10lb box of fruits and vegetables. The photo is last week's box; this week (no pictures) we got eggplant, kale, green beans, onions, sweet potatoes, apples, cherry tomatoes, rutabagas, yellow summer squash, lettuce, and a green pepper. We both enjoy opening the box and seeing what we get every week; I can definitely see how some people might not be into the surprise of figuring out what you're going to cook for the next week, but we find it fun. We've already tried a new vegetable (celeric; we both really liked it) and discovered that we like parsnips a lot more than we thought. Also, the produce is in much better shape and is much more affordable than the grocery store in our neighborhood. We've signed up for a different CSA for next summer, which starts in June. I can't wait for all that wonderful summer produce....I had a little taste of spring earlier this week when it hit 47 degrees for a day and I seriously can't wait. Especially on nights like tonight, when it's zero degrees.

And since this is totally turning into a food blog, it's time to talk about coffee! Dave and I have given up on finding good coffee beans around here that sells for less than a dollar an once, no joke, so we ordered a bunch of coffee beans from our Brooklyn fave, Gorilla. It's even better than I remembered, and it's less expensive, even to have it shipped! Good coffee definitely makes it easier to get out of the house on a frigid February morning; it's probably the only thing that makes that even possible.