Horn of Plenty

Yesterday, I picked up our first order from the Savannah Food Co-op. The Co-op is dedicated to helping Savannah families get healthy and sustainably-produced food and dry goods from local and regional suppliers as much as possible.

They offer primarily regional organic produce, Georgia-produced natural milk and butter, Georgia-produced organic pasture-raised ground beef, Georgia-produced artisanal pastured cheese, locally-caught wild Georgia shrimp, Midwest small-farm-produced organic yogurt, local pastured natural eggs, locally-made natural baked goods, fair-trade organic locally-roasted coffee and natural drugstore items.

There is a nominal fee to join for the year and then you place your order every two weeks via online order form and PayPal. You can order as much or as little as you want. We ordered a small mixed box of fruit and veggies, a couple of pounds of beef (grass-fed, hormone-/antibiotic-free, certified humane) from White Oak Pastures in nearby Bluffton, Ga., and two different cheeses from Sweet Grass Dairy in Thomasville, Ga.

The mixed box contained bananas, baby carrots, pink lady apples, mini minneola tangelos, Valencia oranges, abate fetel pears (which I've since come to learn is Italy's favorite pear), red Swiss chard, purple top turnips, romaine lettuce, avocados, snap beans and Yukon gold potatoes.

This was the scene in our kitchen yesterday:


Last night, we enjoyed the snap beans steamed with some cardamom-flavored basmati rice and sauteed chicken with a white wine/caper/mushroom sauce. Let the cooking begin!