Organics to You January 11, 2010

Today's New Year box from Organics to You contains:

• Head of red lettuce
  
• some broccoli
  
• A bunch of rainbow carrots
• 4 lovely, enormous yellow potatoes
• 1 leek
• green, curly kale
• spinach
• 1 red onion
• 1 yellow onion
• a pile of red potatoes
  
• 3 Jazz apples
• 4 Bosc pears
• 4 Mandarins
  
• 4 bananas

From last week the fridge still contains:

• some red lettuce
  
• some broccoli stems & two full crowns on stems
  
• 3 carrots
  
• spinach
  
• 3 large potatoes
• 1/2 red beet
  
• 3 Pinova apples
• 6 red pears
• 1 Bosc pear
• 5 green pears
• 2 green apples
  
• 4 Fuji apples
• 4 oranges
• 1 Satsuma
• 4 kiwis
• celery
• 2 leeks
• 1/2 red onion
• green, curly kale

The Compost Pail of Shame (what I didn't use and had to compost):

• 2 satsumas
• 1 orange
  

Wow, we have a lot of fruit in the house. Umm, still. Yeah, I'm thinking I need to bake some kind of apple/pear tart thing or Christie suggested a cobbler. That's got to be done, we're overrun with fruit! She's suggesting mashed potatoes again this week. I'm also thinking potato/leek/white bean/kale soup to use up some of this bounty. Christie has requested a quinoa/tempeh salad I've made, so that will show up again this week.

Last week saw some simple meals. Lots of steamed broccoli served simply with rice & grilled tofu. Split pea soup using up some celery & a potato (one of the huge ones). We ended up purchasing some collards since Christie wanted specifically to make them with BBQ black-eyed peas, which we served with quinoa. We also made a few lovely salads.