I'm trying out PeachDish, a recipe + ingredient weekly delivery service. (NB: I hate cooking, and basically every night I get takeout or choose some other option that does not involve me coming into contact with the food before it joins in matrimony with my tastebuds. But I thought such a service might eliminate some of the cooking pain, improve what I was eating, and reduce my food bills.) I chose them because they're relatively flexible in choices for people with low gluten tolerance, they let you skip weeks, and they have a variety of tasty looking meals to choose from each week. They came out at/near the top of various rankings I found. First box arrived this week. First meal was cod, potatoes, and asparagus with salsa verde. It was pretty good; not remarkable, but will be happy to eat the leftovers (they send a minimum of two servings of each meal). It was supposed to take 35 min, and if I knew my way around food prep at all, that seems quite plausible. Took me closer to 50. Ingredients/equipment I had to supply: olive oil, black pepper, foil, baking sheet, knife, cutting board, teaspoon, tablespoon, two bowls, oven. Work I had to do myself that I was not anticipating: slice potatoes, cut asparagus, peel and finely chop garlic, look up YouTube videos on best ways to peel garlic, pick parsley leaves off stems (wtf), chop parsley leaves. Unexpected bonus materials sent to me: OKRA southern culture magazine (PeachDish is headquartered in Atlanta, but offers many types of food), dark chocolate.

Since I ended up with half a burger as leftovers, and with some veggies still leftover from the Epic Salad of Much Massiveness (my previous adventure), I sauteed the remaining burger with the leftover veggies, spreading the garlicky buttery taste all around.  It was delightful.

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Offered by our local mail-order meal company. Most food they offer is local, but we don’t have any ice rinks here, so this is more exotic.

Trying out a new mail order dinner plan. This one is local, with food from local farms. Check out that packaging, too! Tonight was glazed pork chops with roasted potatoes and greens. Really good. I still like Sunbasket a lot, but this was shipped this morning and got here this afternoon. Some of these farmers sell at our local farmers market, so it's nice having a face to go with the food.

Hmm...<whatcha doing?> if our box turns up broken and bad again, we should look for anew service. But this one is all fancy stuff and expensive! #peachdish #expensive #no #recipes #totoro