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Door-to-Door Organics (Chicago)

08.25.11 // Comments:3

door to door organics

Tim and I came up to Chicago last Friday, here to spend a week with my family, and in that time, we have already been given so many gifts—at a beautiful wedding shower thrown for us Saturday, in presents for my birthday today, and, yesterday, through a complimentary box of organic produce delivered to my parents’ door.

The last thing was kind of a crazy story: Door-to-Door had contacted me a few weeks ago, thinking I still lived in Chicago, which is one of the five regions where they deliver food, among Colorado, Kansas City, Michigan and Out East—and when they couldn’t send a box to my new home, they said they would be happy to send one to my parents’ place the next time I was in town. It just so happened we’d be in town this month, and it just so happened it would be for my birthday. So it was that, just like last year with the Talenti gelato, I received something wonderful and free, almost like a birthday gift, delivered to my doorstep.

Here is what it held:

Wow, right? It’s like a CSA that you can purchase when you like!

There was green kale, something we love for morning smoothies and delicious kale chips:

Arugula, which, with walnuts, dried cranberries, balsamic and olive oil, made a perfect salad for last night’s picnic at Ravinia (yet another awesome thing this week):

Two green peppers, sliced and snacked on:

And beets! Mom already sauteed the greens last night!

Our box—dubbed the Bitty Local Farm Box (retail: $26.99) by Door-to-Door—also contained two ears of corn, a bag of greens made for sauteeing and about four poblano peppers. The company offers almost a dozen different box options, in different sizes and containing different items, all customizable to your preferences. In the Chicagoland area, it doesn’t charge additional fees for delivery, so it’s as good as an organic box of produce at the farmers’ market but without your needing to leave your home.

From where I sit today, having all of this, on top of having just had lunch with my four favorite people, and knowing that there’s a homemade chocolate cake waiting for us at home, layered with homemade raspberry whipped cream, I have to tell you:

this birthday is looking pretty sweet.

For more information on Door-to-Door Organics, visit DoortoDoorOrganics.com.

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for this time of year (cream of asparagus)

04.12.10 // Comments:15

april 11 grass

A couple Octobers ago, surrounded by golden maple leaves and whistling breezes and the smell of bonfires in barely twilight, I was walking out to my car with a guy from my Travel Writing class. Inhaling deeply, smiling while I did, I kept telling him, in probably five different ways, how much I loved it all—the season’s smells, its temperatures, how the leaves revealed their true colors, hidden from us the rest of the year. He listened, pretty politely I think, and then, when I’d reached a stopping point, he started talking about spring.

baby buds

I remember how his face changed, how his voice raised when he said green—all the different shades of green! the leaves and the grass and the trees! the newness of it all! I have to say, while I’ve always been an autumn girl: he got me thinking. And a few months later, when the spring he’d been waiting for arrived, I saw it with his eyes.
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housekeeping

03.29.10 // Comments:19

roasted broccoli

Well, I hope I’m not jinxing things by saying so, but that last post seems to have worked: it’s looking and feeling more like spring every day! Today I drove with the windows down! Tonight as I’m typing, the birds are chirping! I’ve been hearing about Passover seders on Twitter and from friends, Easter is on Sunday, it’s practically April, after all! So in the spirit of welcoming (i.e., wishing, hoping, begging, pleading) for this new season that has. to. come. eventually, it’s time for a little spring cleaning. These are things I’ve been meaning to tell you, wanting to tell you or just plain am going to tell you. Settle in for a long post, cause that’s what we’ve got (with lots of pictures!).