Week 20 - Summertime

With the arrival of some gorgeous tomatoes in our box (and a few starting to emerge in our garden), it finally feels like summertime.  The colors in the box have gone from many shades of green to a brighter palette of reds, oranges, yellows, and should make for some beautiful summer meals in the coming week.  That said, we have welcomed a new puppy into our lives (Olive!), and so hoping not to have to cook anything too time intensive this week.  With ingredients like these, hopefully they'll do most of the work for me.

In the box this week

(top) lettuce, green beans, lemon cucumbers, cabbage, arugula

(bottom) carrots, cauliflower, tomatoes, yellow watermelon, cantaloupe, strawberries

Meal plan for the week

Sunday: pasta with roasted Cauliflower, garlic and walnuts, Watermelon for dessert

Monday: Tomato and basil quiche, salad with Lettuce, Lemon Cucumbers, Carrots

Tuesday: pork tenderloin with Arugula, Green Bean and potato salad
Wednesday: Tomato mozzarella pizza with Cantaloupe and prosciutto salad

Thursday: make fresh sauerkraut for consumption next week

It's my 20th week of blogging our box, and I just had my 2,000th visit to the blog!  I can't really say what my expectations were in terms of viewership as I got this started, but I'm pleased to find that it's been good reading for at least a few people.  In the coming weeks, my goal is to get all of the recipes tagged by ingredient, and then create links through to the recipes by either fruit or veggie.  As I embarked on this journey, I did expect to become much more comfortable with the ingredients, but I'm now also realizing that I'm learning a lot about this mode of communication.  By the end of this year, I hope I'll have gotten closer to mastering both.

P.S. If this is your first time at Year in a Box, read this to learn more about what our family is up to! 

This week's title is inspired by the song of the same name by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.