Tuesdays are one of my favorite days.

Tuesday mornings I pick up my CSA produce box and my raw milk. After I get my produce box I lovingly lay it out on my table and take a million pictures from every angle as if I have never seen a piece of fruit before plan my menu for the week based on what’s in the box and what I already have in my cupboards and freezer.

Maple grilled stone fruit and chicken? Squash casserole?  Fajitas with apricots? A roast with carrots and potatoes? I have lots of ideas floating around in my head inspired by this week’s box.

Last week we got lavender and I made lavender mushroom chicken.  It was…umm…different.  Not necessarily bad but it did sort of taste like it might have been marinated in bodywash.

I also suspect a lot of salads this week.

One Tuesday evening a month, I go wait in my car in a neighborhood for a semi-truck to arrive from Oregon. Then we (the truck doesn’t just come for me) unload and disperse everyone’s orders of raw cheeses, yogurts, produce, 25 lb bags of grains, beans, coconut oil and who knows what else.  The truck is from Azure Standard and I highly recommend checking them out.  If you live in their delivery area it’s a great way to save on high quality food.

Tuesdays, I’m also going to start going to the leadership class at taekwondo so I can play with swords.  (I meant to go tonight a certain 8 year old and I had a special date.)

Yeah, Tuesdays are pretty rad.

Tuesdays make me totally happy.

Veggies, fruits, raw milk and swords. What could be better!

Next week, I’m going to start a “How to I make” series.  I save a lot of money and get a lot of nourishment from making things like chicken broth, whey, beans, dried fruit, and kombucha.  And it really doesn’t take all that much time just a little planning.

Oh and does anyone know what this variety of peach is called?  I call them “squatty peaches” but I’m sure they must have a more flattering name.  Have you ever had one? They are SOOOO good and they have that wonderful peach skin!  Oh yes, I love the texture of fuzzy peach skin.  People who peel peaches are crazy.

Hugs and High Fives,
Jenn

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I live in a smallish laid back beach town.  That alone makes this a great town.

But…

My town also has lots of opportunities for fresh local food year round.
Off the top of my head I can count 3 weekly farmers markets within a 10 mile radius and that’s not counting all the farm stands.
(I don’t take this for granted.  Really.)

I also know of 3 local CSAs.
(Totally spoiled.  Now I’m embarrassed to admit I like McDonalds.)

I belong to one of the local CSAs and yesterday this is what came in our box.

Lettuce, Beets, Chard, Japanese Turnips, Basil, Summer Squash, Parsley, Leeks, Tomatoes, Apricots, Arugula

Oh and some lovely Snap Dragons.

If that did not make my day….I got an email from another homeschooling mom, whose husband is a local fisherman, that said they were selling fresh sea bass.

Yes please.

I ran into a friend of mine who was also picking up fish.  This girl is amazing.  She just had her 7th child.  Yes, I typed that right 7th.  Just the other day she was asking me to do a triathlon with her.  Definately a Girl Hero.

Later, Brent and I cooked up a feast of fresh veggies and herb crusted sea bass.

I’m going to do some more tweaking to this recipe as it clocked in at 610 calories.  Doable for maintenance but a bit much as I’m trying to reach a goal.  As soon as I’m finished tweeking I’ll post the recipe.

In the meantime, I’ve decided to do a summer salad series.  Each week I’m going to try and post a new salad.  I’ll start tomorrow because it’s 9:30 and I promised to improve my grades.  

Where do you get your produce?

We don’t get much fruit in our box so I also buy a lot of produce from Trader Joe’s as well.  And I’ll drive 100 miles to get Rainier cherries if they are on sale.

Hugs and High Fives,
Jenn

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Don’t tell anyone but I can be a little obsessive and what some might call a tad bit obnoxious.

For instance, packing for our road trip across the desert to Arizona on Friday I insisted that we take all our veggies (including wilted dandelion greens) from the CSA despite knowing full well we wouldn’t eat them.

Not only is our car stuffed with veggies we won’t eat.
Meow Cow HAS. TO. COME.  After a 30 minute yowling ritual….

…he finds the best seat in the house.
Daddy’s Lap.

Or on our sweet entertainment system.
(Our laptop strapped onto a folding stool/cooler.  Like I said, SWEET.)

Yeah we’re “those kind” of people.

It wasn’t just the cat and the veggies.  Thursday, I started the 10,ooo swings challenge.   I’m hoping it will help lift my butt prepare my hands for the RKC certification in August and I felt like I needed a mini goal to keep me motivated.  My plan, to get all the 10K swings done, is to do 400 for 25 out of the 30 days.   So the kettlebells came with the veggies and the cat.  Not only were they packed but they were swung.  I got in 150 swings before leaving.

Then….

50 more when we stopped at Elle Pollo Loco

60 more in the In-N-Out Parking lot looking hot and not at all like a freak in front of my van.

.

It was a road trip. Don’t judge b/c I had CSA veggies packed…remember?  

50 more in front of the random tank display at sunset at Chiriaco Summit where we stopped to get gas.

I was going to finish the last 90 swings when we got to Phoenix but because of the traffic in LA we were two hours later than expected.
I also thought my self-professed “quirkiness” might be wearing thin in the eyes of my photographer husband.  So I made a judgement call and decided to finish up my swings on Saturday without pictures.

Hugs and High Fives,
Jenn

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