My 10th Order From Abundant Harvest Organics

Happy New Year!

With a new year comes a commitment to eat healthy and so, here I am with a new box of produce.

We still have some produce from the last box we got, 3 weeks ago. Minus that small problem, a quarter head of the cabbage and 1/2 watermelon radish and the three black Spanish radishes, we did well eating produce. I liked the 3 week spread between boxes and decided to change my delivery to that pattern. So we should get 1 to 2 boxes a month. We will try that, to see if it makes our lives a bit less crazy, produce wise. :-)

We are in the middle of winter and citrus is coming out right now. We got 10 mandarin oranges (which would be just great, except that we have that much from a deal at our store a month or so ago). So now we have 20 or so cuties.

On top of that, we got 3 regular Valencia oranges. Great, more oranges. I feel like I have a tree. :-)

Without further adieu, here is what we got in our box.

5 Red Apples
1 head of Broccoli
1 head of Cabbage
1 head of Cauliflower
A bunch of Dill
1 bunch Kale
3 Oranges
10 Mandarin Oranges
2 Rutabaga
1 bunch Tokyo Bekana (it is the pale green leafy vegetable, next to the apples in the photo)
2 Watermelon Radishes
1 Winter Squash (Butternut)

The first thing of note is that we got 12 and not 10 different items, this box. As a matter of fact, 4 of the produce choices were outside the box and so I got to choose how big I wanted them. I went small on the Butternut Squash, Tokyo Bekana, Cabbage and Cauliflower. Remember the huge Butternut Squash and Cabbage from last time? Yikes, not again!

Obviously, the broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage will be no problem. More coleslaw in our future. As a matter of fact, the watermelon radishes should go well, grated up in the slaw.

The Kale is a different variety and I look forward to cooking it, to see if it does better then it's very fiber filled cousin.

I found a cool Rutabaga recipe, that looks like scalloped potatoes. I might try it.

The Tokyo Bekana should work well in my soup. I am going to make a Tuscan Soup Recipe that came on our flyer. It sounds great and it has tortellini and no beans in it. Definitely not what I expected from a Tuscan Soup. Will let you know how it turns out.

I had just commented to my family that our dill was dead and gee, they sent me a bunch of Dill. Yay!

The butternut squash may become that side dish again. I want to see if precooking it, helps to make the dish shine.

That's it! See me in 3 weeks, for more.