The Crate, fair food brought home

A few weeks ago we went to this market on Easter morning. Beautiful setting in the Frankendael Park in Amsterdam. It was a true feast to any foodie maniac as us. We got to a stand where they sold subscriptions to "the crate". A crate filled with all these organic and local produces such as vegetables, meat, fish, eggs, breads and so on. Foodie as I am, I just had to get me one of those subscriptions of course !! Only problem was they didn't deliver to our hometown... But... Goodness gracious me... They were willing to take a detour in order to deliver to us as well ! How awsome is that !!

So... this morning our first crate arrived. Present of the week to me ! This weeks crate contained:  

A green zucchini

A bunch basil

Coeur de boeuf tomatoes

5 kinds of cherry tomatoes (red, green, yellow)

Cucumbers

3 colors eggplants

Green chard leaves

New potatoes

Lollo Biondo lettuce crop

A bunch of fresh peppermint 

A bunch chervil

Gasconner beef burgers

rustic break bread 

homemade tomato ketchup

The crate comes with recipes for every item in the crate. You can choose to go for a (non)vegetarian 2 or 4 persons crate. In our case every other week delivered on Saturday mornings. I got to tell you people, do try this !! Seasonal organic and local. What else does a foodie want ?? 

I'll try to post some of the recipes I come up with using products from the crate on this blog. 

For more info check out http://www.dekrat.nl/