The early fall is my favorite time of year.
It’s where I’m falling in love with the food offered at the Greenmarkets and via the online groceries vendor in New York City.
I’ve taken to ordering an organic CSA box every week. The box is chock full of produce. For only $30 you get enough vegetables to last for three or four days of cooking.
The Hepworth Farms cornucopia features a carrot, tomatoes, potatoes, broccoli, hot pepper, Lacinato kale, an ear of corn, garlic heads, an onion bulb, shallots, two apples, and scallions. And oh—mint leaves, celery, hot peppers and a green pepper, and butternut squash.
If you ask me $30 isn’t a heck of a lot of money for this assortment. Ordering groceries online and having them delivered right to your front door beats the hassle of going to a food market.
Who wants to dodge shopping carts and have to wait on line to pay for the mostly unhealthful food and drink options?
Plus, I can’t reach any of the items I want to get. A market employee has to be called on to bring the organic lettuce down from a high shelf.
I’ve given up on going to a food market for major weekly shopping.
Plus the last time I bought scallops from a market I thought I was going to get food poisoning after cooking and eating them.
If you live in New York City and want the only superb seafood, go to a Greenmarket vendor that sells fish and other catches of the sea during market season.
At other times of the year go to a standalone seafood storefront where all they sell is fish.
In the second blog entry for today I’m going to feature a recipe for Butternut Squash Soup.
Pure joy can be had when you eat healthfully eighty percent of the time and break a sweat at least twice a week.
This is my mantra: eat well to live well.
Though I can’t resist having a honey-lavender macaroon or a scoop of ice cream here and there : )
Flourish 