What We're Eating

I've had a good time with some of our meals this week. We used our Groupon for Door to Door Organics, which brought a box of ripe organic produce straight to my door the day after the blizzard. It's unreasonably expensive for me to do again but I'm enjoying the one-time deal.

Turns out, this is good practice for our upcoming summer of CSA take-what-they-give-you produce.

Last night I had no plan but there was a roast in the freezer. I knew it was bound for the crock pot, so I browsed relevant recipes on a crock pot blog. I chose a cranberry pot roast because I had all the parts. A bag of cranberries has been snoozing in the freezer since late autumn.

Pot roast begs for mashed potatoes but alas! only two potatoes on the premises. The box o' produce included a big butternut squash, so we had roasted mashed squash instead. Waaaaay better than potatoes.

I also tried a new tuna salad recipe this week. I know, tuna salad - woo hoo. This one is not even a distant relative of the mayo & pickle relish version I've enjoyed for years. This one had lime juice (1 lime per 6 oz. can of tuna), cilantro, red onion. On a bun with lettuce and tomato (thank you box o' produce!), it gave me a few minutes' respite from my snowbound mid-winter blues. The cookbook I took it from praised the recipe's low-fatitude. I ate it with potato chips.