AHO large box

Since it's Mother's Day weekend and I knew I'd be cooking dinner for my mom, I decided to upgrade to the large box from AHO this week. It's amazing that you get twice the fruits and vegetables for $13 more. This week's box has Mandarin oranges, Valencia oranges, strawberries, baby artichokes, beets, lettuce, sugar snap peas, potatoes, shallots, tomatoes and tarragon. The sugar snap peas are addictive. They're a little work to string and clean, but well worth it. They almost taste like candy. The strawberries are great too. I don't think they're going to make it through the weekend. Can't wait to get blueberries next week!

I'm not sure yet what I'm going to cook for mom, but I'll be sure to post it. Happy Mother's Day weekend to you all.

Abundant Harvest Organics

I've always been intrigued by blogs, but never felt I had anything to blog about until I signed up for Abundant Harvest Organics. AHO is a alliance of small family farmers in Central California that grow organic fruits and vegetables that are boxed and delivered each Saturday morning. The boxes vary from week to week depending on what's in season. I think AHO is fantastic for so many reasons. It's fresh (field to table in 48 hours), it's organic, it's local, it requires the recipients of the boxes to try new foods and eat more fruits and vegetables. For cooks like myself, it provides an inspiration to build meals around. We've signed up for the small box, which feeds 1-2 people for the week.

It's almost like Christmas each Saturday since you never really know what you're going to find when you open the box. This week was our first pick-up and we opened our box to find Red Sails lettuce, Swiss chard, chamomile, spring onions, broccoli, baby turnips, fava beans, potatoes, Valencia oranges and mandarin oranges. Stay tuned to find out what I do with it all. I've never had baby turnips and these sugar snap peas are huge so it should be fun.