I mean come on, how good do these carrots look? Of course I’m going to buy some. Potential web sellers take note: good photos really help move units. (all of these beautiful photos are lifted directly from the good eggs site. Please forgive me.)
Oh happy day, my dreams are coming true little by little. Not that I don’t love a casual stroll through the farmers market, or the surprise you get when you open up your CSA box, but man, when you tell me I can get produce straight from nearby farms and small batch locally prepared food directly from the makers all delivered to my doorstep Fresh Direct style, I will raise my arms up to the heavens and shout Hallelujah!
As a matter of fact, I have to pause here for a minute and place my order for Thursday. Please bear with me for a sec…
Ok. All done.
Really all I want to say is that if you live in Brooklyn or San Francisco (or LA or New Orleans) you get to partake in this new food revolution called Good Eggs. It’s a beautifully designed (no really, even my super web-design-snob husband loves it) community oriented web company that is linking these farmers and food producers directly with their potential customers. So you can get all local and fresh and whatnot without leaving the comfort of your own home.
You go to the site, set up an account, decide what you want to buy (reading the little bios of the sellers if you are so inclined), buy it, decide when you want to receive the bounty (for example, order by midnight on Tuesday for Thursday delivery) and then just hang out at home till the food shows up. In a nicely designed brown paper bag, often with a note from some of the folks making the food.
For example, if you’re curious, you can scroll on down to see what I ordered this week (and I didn’t get any pasta, or grocery staples, or baby food…)
Saturday morning breakfast is going to be all about these buttermilk biscuits from BeeHive Oven. Which we had last week. I ate 3 of them myself.
We will also be eating this bacon from Dickson’s Farmstand Meats. Worth every penny, cause it ain’t cheap. Josh says it’s the best bacon he’s ever had in his life. And I’m all about keeping my husband happy, since he does most of the cooking.
Macoun apples from Fishkill Farms. So we can make more apple sauce and pies and just bite into their crunchy fresh awesomeness.
AND OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST SODA EVER. You might remember an earlier post in which I raved about it and talked about how I was going to stalk the people at Brooklyn Sodaworks till they delivered some to me. Well my stalking days are over.
So now you know a bit of what we’re eating this week. Please please check these Good Eggs folks out. You will not be sorry.
