Beginnings

I am Victoria, and my husband is Rob. This blog exists because we are really good at planning, but we’re terrible at planning meals. It’s so bad that we had to pay people to bring vegetables to us just so we wouldn’t eat sloppy joes every night. Our weekly box of random vegetables makes an excellent Google search (“what do I do with swiss chard, parsnips, potatoes and an avocado?”), and so you, oh Internet, have become our meal planner. It’s great, and we want to share with you what we’ve done with your wisdom.

This blog is a record of how we put together meals from what we receive each week.  It's not a step-by-step "how to cook" blog nor a collection of recipes, although I do hope to provide links for the recipes I find online.  Instead, it is an archive of ideas and inspiration for how to eat beets and potatoes three weeks in a row without getting bored.  (We just signed up for the delivery service in November, so it's been nothing but root vegetables so far!)  It is also an archive of the tweaks I make to the recipes I do find.  Often I have an idea in mind, but can't find a recipe to match.  I'll usually find several recipes that are almost, but not quite, what I'm looking for.  Then I'll take bits and pieces from each one and mash them together to accomplish my vision. I’ve never had a record of what I did to repeat it in the future…until now!  I hope this blog will provide inspiration for many meals to come.

Part of the motivation for signing up for a produce delivery service was to force us to eat more fruits and veggies as well as force us to be more creative in the meals we make.  We hope this leads to healthier eating habits as well as eating at home more often - because we LOVE to eat out!  

Speaking of eating out, we thought we'd also occasionally include our restaurant critiques.  When we try a new place, we like to rate it on a 5-star system in 3 categories: food, service, and ambiance.  There are so many great restaurants in the Portland, OR area, we'll never run out of new places to try!