Bountiful Basket: Week 1

Our first basket! 

Johanna and I signed up for Bountiful Baskets, a co-op where you can buy a whole basket of fruit and vegetables for 15 bucks. It's a way good deal, and then you have so many fruits and veggies to love and eat throughout the week!  We signed up for our basket on Monday, and then picked it up on Saturday. You should sign up too, because it's the best decision we have ever made. :)   

So what did we do with all these goodies? Most of it we just gobbled right up, especially the adorable little watermelon. We demolished that little guy in about 5 minutes. Wanna know all the fun things we made? Welp, you are in luck because I am going to tell you! :) 

I have the cutest roommates ever. :)

Sunday was Jena's birthday and so we used a few of our yummy things in her dinner. We made fettuccine alfredo that was way good and incredibly easy. We used the broccoli for that, and the cucumber, lettuce and carrots for the salad.  

We boiled the leftover carrots, some bell peppers, and the bag of radishes. We were stumped on what else to do with a bag full of radishes, so we just boiled them. It blew our minds to watch the radishes as they cooked. First, the water was super purple. And then all the water just vanished! Cool dude. The radishes were way good after we added a ton of butter, salt and pepper. :)

Fries-so good! :)

We also made twice baked sweet potatoes and sweet potato fries with our carrots. Just kidding. :) We made up our recipe for the twice baked sweet potatoes. We added a hunk of butter, a bunch of brown sugar, some nutmeg and some cinnamon. And I added marshmallows on top of a few because I could. :) I thought they were super good, but Johanna was not such a huge fan because they were too sweet. Which is why I liked them! The fries were a total hit. They were super delicious. We made a batch with just salt and pepper, and then a batch with paprika and garlic salt in addition. They were both really good, and way easy to make. 

Love me some banana bread!

We made some classic banana bread with the bananas that got a little too brown. We took some over to my brother and his roommates, and I think they might have liked it a little bit. :) The recipe used sour cream, which made the bread really moist and super yummy. We also left the bananas a little chunky so the bread had yummy banana pieces in it. Sooo good! 

What else did we make? Apple crisp! In the microwave. Whhhaaaattt? Johanna made this, and I have no idea how. I just cut the apples perfectly and then devoured the finished product. It was freaking delicious, and a great way to use those last few apples. 

So basically, we gained about 20 pounds this week, but it was so worth it. I love Bountiful Baskets!