Saturday Morning

This is what our Saturday mornings looks like.

At 6:45 a.m. we pull ourselves out of bed and drive down the street to our small town City Hall to pick up our produce from Bountiful Baskets (a food co-op in AZ, ID, UT, TX, NV, WA, & WY where, for $15, we get more than enough fresh fruits and veggies grown by local farmers. Yay for local!). There’s so much food, we can’t ever eat it all, so we actually split a basket with Frit’s sister.

The contents of the basket change weekly and you don’t get to choose–you just get what you get. But they’re always delicious. Last week we got a cantaloupe that was so juicy and sweet I couldn’t stop talking about it. No really. I think I brought it up every day. We put it in a fruit salad with blackberries, blueberries, peaches, and kiwi that I ate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

This week we purchased two baskets–one to split as usual and another to leave on the doorstep of an unsuspecting neighbor (Frit’s idea. She’s always coming up with nice things like that to do for other people.).

Contents this time around? In each basket we got: 1 bag of Idaho potatoes, 1 bunch of bananas, 1 bag of grapes, 1 watermelon, 2 mangos, 9 plums, 9 peaches, 9 limes, 1 bunch white asparagus, 1 head romaine lettuce, 1 head cauliflower, 1 container cherry tomatoes, & 3 butternut squash. (For $15! Can you believe that? But like I said, we share, so it’s actually only $7.50. Divided between 2 roommates, I only spend $3.75 on my produce for the week.)

It was all so beautiful, I think I spent an hour photographing each and every piece this morning. And just for kicks I might even pull out my sketch pad and pencils this afternoon to do some still life drawings. The colors are killing me!

And tomorrow? I think butternut squash pasta and a lime cheesecake are on the menu. What do you think?

So tell me: How do you spend your Saturday morning?

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