Eating

Monday is "box day".

It is the day we pick up our weekly box of produce from the Los Poblanos Organics farm.

For only $26 you get a box loaded with locally-grown, organic produce. You get many things you know (oranges, baby spinach, carrots and red onions, for example) and a wide variety of things that may be brand new (blood oranges, red chards, Japanese sweet potatoes and purple carrots). The items are seasonal and will vary throughout the year.

Here's what we got in our box this week:
Oranges
Bunch Carrots
Mixed Onions
Sweet Baby Lettuce Mix or Head LPO Lettuce
1 lb Zucchini
3 Kiwis
Cauliflower
Bag LPO Spinach
First Strawberries of the Season
Red Chard

At first, it was awkward using all of the produce, especially the new and unfamiliar items. What do you do with red chards? But we made a promise to eat every item in the box and enjoy them. Amanda made it her mission to cook something fun with each of the items and has demonstrated fantastic skills at using these ingredients. You will see all of her creations within the pages of this website... simple, healthy and fun creations.

To learn more and sign up, visit the farm's web site. You can customize your box in certain ways, have additional items included for additional costs (like Fair Trade coffee and grass-feed ground beef) and even have the box delivered straight to your home (for an additional $4.95 per box).

Los Poblanos is local to the Albuquerque area. For readers in other areas around the country, do a web search to see what comes up in your local community.

The Los Poblanos Organics web site can be found at http://www.lospoblanosorganics.com/.