First box of food!

I got the email on Monday that my delivery day would be Wednesday (today) and I have been almost holding my breath all afternoon! So exciting!

Sure enough, when I came home from work today there was a big red box waiting outside of my front door.

Amazing!  It's like Christmas.  I tore open the box immediately-- here's what I got this week and what farms the food came from:

• Green beans ( a LOT of green beans) from Deer Run Farm in Hanover, VA
• Zephyr squash and zucchini (about 5) from Adlyn Farm in Louisa, VA
• Cabbage (I can't get the Cabbage Patch song outta my head) from Deer Run
• Cauliflower from Mole Hill Gardens in Dayton,  VA
• Bibb lettuce (g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s) from Mole Hill
• Raspberries from Snead's farm in Fredericksburg, VA
• Mushrooms (oyster? shitake? I need to look this up... but they look delicious) from Sunny Side Farm in Cumberland, VA
• Beets from Adlyn
• Radishes from Holly Hill Farm in Waterview, VA
• Goat Cheese (!!!) from Lover's Retreat in Saluda, VA
• Free range eggs (1 doz) from Edgewood Farms in Dayton, VA
• Whole wheat loaf of bread from The Flour Garden in Richmond, VA
• Ground Beef (2 lbs) from Sunnyvale
• and a little jar of blueberry jam!

It's a lot of food.  I feel like royalty right now.

So for all of this, I paid $67.  I did some research online and found that this is still more than "average grocery prices" but I'm not sure that it isn't much more (of not the same or less?) than prices at Whole Foods or Ellwoods...  I might have to do some field work.

Before this delivery I thought I might be getting a lot of food I don't know how to cook, but I can already see some meals (although they'll be pretty basic): hamburgers on the grill with lettuce (or make lettuce wraps?), green beans stir fried with mushrooms, roasted beets (should I try to pickle some beets!?), coleslaw, cauliflower gratin, and then the regular bread and cheese and eggs and stuff.  I already made myself a plate:

The bread is awesome- there's rye seed maybe in it? and the cheese has yummy herbs all over it.  OK, my ONE disappointment with this box?  I had heard they would send me a recipe or two, but I didn't get any :o(  oh well- did I mention the blueberry jam?!  yum.

The next step is to use this website I found: Eat Real Good where you can plug in all the ingredients you get and they come up with meal plans for you.   They suggest I make beef and cabbage casserole, zucchini linguine, pork chops with apples and green beans....and some other stuff that sounds...meh.  I think tonight I will make Asian hamburger lettuce wraps...except I don't feel like going to buy onions so I'm just gonna season with the teryaki sauce and spices I have here...and mix in some mushrooms and zucchini.  yum!