The biggest downsides of it was that it really had sit outside the freezer for a while before it was able to be scooped, but we are hoping that it was just the tangerine ice cream, not the ice cream maker in general. Next, we want to try peanut butter ice cream... not to use up supplies... but because it's my favorite!
Adoption updates is that we are currently at a "we can't do much stage"... which apparently there will be a lot of! This stage is because although our adoption agency has received and accepted our application, they have mailed us the paperwork for the next step and we haven't received it yet. I don't know if our homestudy agency has received our paperwork yet, but the next step for them will also be them sending us papers, and us having to send them back. So... currently, life is focused on our normal stuff like cooking, exercise and my parent teacher conferences coming up, which is enough to keep us busy. Though, for the record, I probably won't make a point of talking about the adoption stuff in every post, but I do plan on keeping the top ticker as accurate as I can, if you just want to see what's the latest news in our process.
Here are our two most recent CSA boxes:
1/12
Most exciting thing of note in this box was the avocados! I forgot about getting those in the box! Yum! Though, I was sad to not get the nuts this week, those are an amazing snack.
1/19
Exciting thing this week is leeks! Funny thing is that although we only have a few of the supplies needed for the recipe, they made me want to make minestrone this week with them. Most of the other things I am making this week are full of things we already have, so one recipe that we have to buy most things for can't hurt.
This weekend we are going to try preserving oranges in two different ways because Blake's parents' tree is producing lots of fruit right now, and we are excited to try new things. We were first thinking marmalade, but that would take almost all of the fruit, takes lots of sugar, and it isn't like we love it (we are more of berry jams here), so we are just going to jar the oranges (like canned mandarins) and freeze some of them. I'll try to remember to say how it goes.
One other thing I wanted to say is that we had a really tasty variant of the Emerald Green risotto that I talked about here before, where we added the kale and sorrel. It was great, and we used it as one of our leftover meals for the week.
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