Saturday morning, the family and I headed into town to pick up our box of fruits and veggies from Rawfully Organic, a local co-op. Hopefully soon there will be a spot to pick up closer to home, but this was near Rice University. The kids did great on the drive. If it wasn’t for the gas prices, I’d have no problem making this drive every so often!
Anyway, here are the tents set up with the boxes underneath.
We bought a “half-share” which is still a stinkin’ lot of organic fruits and veggies. Yummo!!
The greens and the tomatoes (maybe some other stuff as well) was locally grown, and it’s all organic. Good stuff!
In our box: bananas, celery, zucchini, cucumber, avocado, green beans, 3 pears, 2 tangelos, 4 oranges, 4 apples, sweet potato, two bunches romaine, one bunch spinach, one bunch kale, one bunch baby bok choy (had to look that one up!), 3 tomatoes, kiwi, pineapple, bag carrots, strawberries, blueberries, cherry tomatoes
We are really making our way through the produce, trying to use up the stuff that won’t last quickly! Even though I had visions of kale “chips”, it was so wilty when I got to it that I just steamed it with some of the spinach, then pureed and froze for James in a few months! The girls have really been enjoying the strawberries – they had some on their cheerios the last couple of days. They’ve also willingly eaten carrots sticks, celery sticks, cucumber sticks, and raw green beans. Joanna also enjoys the tomatoes. We ate some of the zucchini in slices on our pizza Saturday – yum!! Yesterday I made a stir fry and used the bok choi, carrots, and green beans – mmmmmm. We haven’t cut into the pineapple yet, and the bananas are still green; I’m glad everything’s not ripe all at once!
When we got home on Saturday, we decided to eat some of our yummy produce with a side of farm fresh scrambled eggs. Ohhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyyyyy. Yum.
I don’t know if you can tell in the picture, but fresh eggs from free range chickens are so bright and beautiful!
I have been wanting to try making ice cream lately, and my cousin Christiana offered us their ice cream maker to try! I didn’t take many pictures because I had like nine million things going on in the kitchen Sunday afternoon, but I had to take a picture of it after the cycle was done in the ice cream maker.
Can you believe I was home alone for a few minutes, and no one else was there to taste see it?!
Homemade ice cream is really really really good. I had planned to make chocolate chip ice cream because I had a package of milk chocolate chips burning a hole in my pantry, but I decided the vanilla was soooooo good on it’s own, I needed some plain vanilla too. So I halved it, and now we have some of each – wahoo!! I used about half raw whole milk and half heavy cream from the store to make this (plus of course sugar, salt, and vanilla). It’s really really good. I want to play around with some recipes (using less sugar and what not). I’m not sure how small a batch I can do in this ice cream maker, so I may try the nested plastic bag method as well. My girls would love that! I was looking online the other day at ice cream makers, and I found one that attaches to the Kitchen Aid stand mixer. It’s pretty pricey, but I’m very curious about it! Homemade ice cream would be something very fun to do for a summer birthday. (Oh heck, we live in Houston – it would be good for any birthday!)
We still have lots left if you feel like stoppin’ by. You can pick up a few toys, fold a few clothes, and have a bowl of ice cream. :)
Hey, we have the Kitchen Aid Ice Cream maker if you ever want to borrow it. We've used it a couple of times using the recipes it came with. It's littler than the big ones, so we haven't experimented with our other recipes. Let me know if you want to try it out before you buy one!
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