Anything can happen day

[rolanni]

So!  I went into town this morning, as planned, accomplishing gym, and a whole-wheat-and-white-swirl baguette fresh from the oven, and! Jimmy Hendrix stamps (for Steve) and circus stamps (for me).

Back home, I decided to wash my new skirt that came today.  The washing went fine, but when I put it in to dry, the dryer started to scream and smoke.  Took skirt out of dryer, hung over shower rod to dry; called Ray the Appliance Guy, who promises to come by around 5 tonight to take a look.

While this was going on, Steve was putting together salads for lunch, and cutting pieces off the baguette and mixing up an olive oil dip, and all.

After lunch, we had some excitement.  By which I mean, more excitement than the dryer perhaps dying the death.  A UPS truck pulled up in front of the house and one of the nice young men handed me a box from hellofresh:

Our first HelloFresh box

We opened the box and removed the contents.  Here's what we'll be eating for dinner for the next couple, four days:

Contents of box, and recipe cards.

Each plastic bag contains the makings for what the HelloFresh people apparently thinks is a meal for two, and which we're thinking is at least two meals each.  In the back left, chicken breasts and steak, on the right, ricotta cheese, and spices.

This is an experiment to see how well we like this concept.  There are times when not having to go out and forage would be very useful.  Will report back.  If anyone wants to try this -- for science! -- drop me a note off list; I've got a discount code to share with friends.

While we were ooo-ing and ahhh-ing over the contents of the box, other residents of the house had taken custody of the box itself:

Trooper and Sprite take over the HelloFresh box, because it's there!

We put all the food away, and looked out the window onto the deck to find that we had been invaded by red-breasted grosbeaks!  Proof:

Red-breasted grosbeak

Another red-breasted grosbeak.

So, that's the excitement du jour, here at the Cat Farm and Confusion Factory.

No, wait!  I'm wrong.

The sun has just come out.

Wow.

Comments

[blythe025.livejournal.com]

Interesting. So HelloFresh sends fresh meats and veggies? I'm not clear on what the program is. Still, sounds fun!

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Should've put a link up in that. Here you are: http://www.hellofresh.com/

What they do is basically send all the ingredients, already measured out and sealed separately for three meals for two or four people; they include recipe cards, illustrating how to cook the ingredients. Prep time is about 30 minutes. I'm seeing this Very Useful during the times we're on deadline crush, or if one of is ill, or during the Deep Winter. It's not, I think, for us, an every week thing. It's pretty expensive, but provisionally worth it for people who, for whatever reason, are in the position of having to squeeze 26 hours of work into 24 hours.

[blythe025.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I'm single and I try to stick to food being as cheap as possible (while still slightly healthy), so I'm not sure this would work for me. Still, I like the idea, because I'm not much of a cook and it might teach me a few more meal ideas.

Misc

[catherine ives (from livejournal.com)]

Cats and box news.
Very pretty birds in ME news.
Thanks

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

The cats--we know they're beautiful. :-) But those birds are pretty beautiful, too. And now I must investigate this Hello Fresh of which you speak. I am curious!

Hellofresh, birds, cats and boxes

[nocal-kathyf.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the picture of the red-breasted grosbeak - lovely. We mostly have sparrows and finches with an occasional western blue bird for color in our area of the west coast. Wish we had Hello Fresh out here. We can go into town and you can make your meals from packets like that, which is great but I never seem to get there to do it.
I love seeing cats and boxes. If I were better at it I'd upload a shot of our cat D'art, sitting on the counter "guarding" the tomatoes I just picked. He didn't sit on one! Hope you have a lovely day.