A Week with No Broccoli

No Broccoli, you say??? How can that be so? Isn't that one of the two green standard vegetables in a given week at the Deal house? Yes, it is, but as we found out quickly on Thursday night, our produce box from our farm to table delivery included NO broccoli. As promised, here were the contents of produce box #1. It was a good variety of different fruits and vegetables. Possibly, too good a variety, as there were smaller amounts of each item, but more on that in later blogs.

Vegetables (and veggie-like fruits)

1 Big Bunch Rainbow Chard

3 Large Carrots

1 Bunch Basil

1 Leek

2 Tomatoes

2 Red Onions

3 Red Beets

5 Small Purple Potatoes

1 Bunch Mystery Salad Greens

Fruits

1 Red Apple

1 Green Apple

2 Bananas

1 Lemon

1 Ruby Red Grapefruit

Mystery greens you ask? How hard can it be to identify salad greens? Well, you be the judge. Here is a picture of the greens. And you'll see the poll to the right. Turns out they WERE my first guess, but I wasn't originally 100% convinced. I was thrown by the long stems...