Los Poblanos! (and Doctor Who fic)

[anogete]

First, I'm totally write fic again. Totally. It's Nine/Rose. It's a bit rough going, but I'm getting there and even enjoying it. Now I just need to find a beta, which is rather daunting since I don't know anyone in the Nine/Rose sector of the Doctor Who fandom.

Los Poblanos Organics that I mentioned in this entry? Totally joined it. Yay! It's a farm that participates in community supported agriculture. This just means that you pay a weekly fee for a box of whatever organic fruits and veggies they have available. You don't get to choose what you receive each week, but they promise enough fruits and veggies to feed a family of four. They post the contents of the upcoming week's box on their website so people can plan meals several days in advance. The boxes are delivered to your home or specific drop-off locations in the city on Monday morning. I had mine delivered to a bookstore a couple miles from my apartment. I dropped by after work today and picked it up.





The box has five apples, a head of cauliflower, a bunch of green onions, a bunch of red bore kale, six tangerines, three avocados, a container of cherry tomatoes, a bag of spring mix, four navel oranges, a bunch of carrots, and two pounds of butter cream heirloom potatoes. I've already had two of the tangerines, and they were delicious. Everything else looks beautiful and tasty. And, it's all organic and produced here at LPO or at a small sister farm in California or Arizona.

I'm so ridiculously organized, I've planned out the meals in order to use everything. The spring mix, cauliflower, cherry totatoes, and carrots will be used in several dinner salads this week. The apples, tangerines, and oranges are mid-afternoon or late-night snacks. The green onions and avocados are going into omelets this coming weekend after the avocados ripen fully. I found a great recipe to make crispy kale 'chips' for dinner one night. And the heirloom potatoes are most definitely getting cooked and mashed up with some blue cheese and the remaining green onions.

I'm excited about this because it will force me to eat healthier. I'm diverting the money I would have spent at the regular market on junk to Los Poblanos for the organic boxes. It's $28 a week, so that's a substantial amount of junk I'm not going to be purchasing any longer. I'm a vegetarian for crap's sake, I should be eating loads of veggies. Jason dragged me out to Sonic on Sunday afternoon for lunch. I ate tots and attempted to eat some cheese sticks, but the entire thing just grossed me out. I nearly threw up afterward because my stomach felt so heavy and disgusting. So, this is a great idea for us. Fruits and veggies all the way, I say.

Comments

[theredzebra1.livejournal.com]

Everything looks delicious. I'm particularly enthralled by the beautiful color of the kale. Good for you for making good food choices! I want to see if anyone around my area does this sort of thing.

[anogete.livejournal.com]

I'm used to the ruffled green kale; I've never cooked red bore kale. Though, I don't think it is much different preparation and taste-wise. Everything looks so very edible, and I'm tickled that the apples are lopsided and cute. I'm tired of the perfectly round apples from the grocery store that are covered in wax.

[bleedtoblue.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you are writing again, though I no nothing about the pairing.

Your produce looks wonderful, enjoy!

[dressagegrrrl.livejournal.com]

That produce looks great! RFN and I participated in a CSA group for a while, but it was really dependent on the season and what the local farms around us were producing. I'm not terribly picky, but even I don't know how to prepare radishes.

Oh man, I'm excited you're writing fic again, but I've actually NEVER seen a single episode of Dr. Who. :(

[anogete.livejournal.com]

I think I needed new source material to get my fanfic mojo working again. I love HP and SS/HG, but I there is so much of it out there that I felt like I couldn't come up with anything worthwhile enough to add to it. There are loads of Doctor Who fics, but the Nine/Rose section is comparatively small. It's still quite active, but there are a great deal of people who write it. I'm in the honeymoon stage of exploring a new relationship and a new dialogue style. Snape and Hermione are both very formal and grammatically correct when speaking, but Doctor Who is much more open with tons of sentence fragments in the dialogue. I was having difficulty switching gears.

[fishchick.livejournal.com]

I could take a look at it. I don't ship Nine/Rose (or Anyone/Rose, really, after her character arc ended... boy do you have interesting times ahead of you) but I know the series well.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

If you are still looking for someone to beta Nine/Rose for you, or an additional someone, I wouldn't mind taking a look at it. I'm primarily a catch the spelling errors, tense shifts, flow issues type of beta first, but I read and write a lot of romance and smut in this ship and can definitely tell you if character voices are on or off and whether or not the story rings true for this ship second. If you want me to look at it send me a PM and I'll send you my email addy.