Veggies!

[magid]

I got my first box of veggies from Boston Organics. I'm getting the smaller box, 67% veggies, the rest fruit. This week, that means:

• 4 bananas
  
• 2 delicatas
  
• a pound of baby carrots
  
• a smallish head of cauliflower
  
• 5 Fuji apples
  
• 6 Yukon Gold potatoes
  
• 3 Hamlin oranges
  
• 2 tangelos
  
• a pound (or so) of Jerusalem artichokes, aka sunchokes

Other people apparently also got Bosc pears, celery, kiwis, avocado, eggplant, and pineapple, but those are things that either (a) I marked that I don't want to get or (b) are for people who get either the bigger boxes or differently-distributed (fruit/vegetable) boxes. I may reconsider what to put on the never-see list.

The share comes with a page of information, about what's in the box (and where it comes from), storage tips, nutritional information (I hadn't known that sunchokes' carbs are mostly in the form of inulin, and that they're a nonfat source of lots of iron), plus a couple of recipes.

I was hoping for some onions or other alliums, but this looks pretty good so far (OK, I was also hoping for interesting mushrooms, but I suspect that's very seasonal.). Initial thoughts: roast the cauliflower and the squashes. Also the potatoes, as appropriate Hannukah fare. Make some kind of fruit compote with some apple, some orange, and some cranberry, perhaps for canning.

Hm. Looking back at this, it seems closer to 50/50 for fruit. Hm.

Comments

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Ok, last week (let's see if I can remember):

7 Macintosh apples, which neither I nor the birds (shock!) like much
2 largish beets
2 medium yellow summer squash
6 bananas
5 or 6 tangerines
1 grapefruit
1 big bunch of green chard :)
1 head of green leaf lettuce
2 pears
1 cucumber, fed to someone who actually likes it

Um . . . I think that was it. I would have rather had more veggies and less fruit, I think. I'm not interested in switching to weekly delivery; I don't think it's quite worht the money. But maybe upping it to a $35 box would be better (=more veggies to spread over 2 weeks).

[magid.livejournal.com]

Apple crisp, maybe? Oh, and I envy you the greens.

In the bigger box, there'd be more veggies, but I wonder if the balance would seem as fruity as the smaller box.

I hadn't considered changing to a larger box every other week, I think because that felt like too much produce for me at once. Or at least, I'd have to pay much more attention to using certain things up first. And I don't want any more fruit than I got with the smaller box, really. It's cheaper than the small box every week, though. *ponder*

Oh, and we've definitely chosen different things not to get; I was inundated with enough beets this summer that I'm ready for a break. Ditto with cucumbers. Which obviously skews the contents, for comparison purposes.

I think the salad queen is getting a $35 box every other week (your week), 50/50 balance. I should ask what she got last week.