intermezzo 1 our suma order

so when we first imagined this page we viewed it strictly as a food diary, and the idea was that there would be no scattering of all thoughts food related, but it would be about precisely what we are eating (because ... one evening we had a chat about all the things we were forgetting that we liked to eat and make, so the answer was to keep a diary), but now comes an event so "monstramental" in our kitchen that we cannot resist to write about it ... the suma order:

basically suma is a wholesaler of bulk, organic foods and if you get enough people together to buy enough food they will deliver it to one of you for free, we wanted to do it for one thing and one thing only: their canned tomatoes! 

but in the meantime we got other things too, such as these hazelnuts, enough to make 5 hazelnut and blue cheese loafs!

or these ground almonds, to make all kinds of other goodness (especially smoothies and almond cakes!)














the really fascinating thing about receiving these 1 kilo bags is that it tells you precisely where your food is coming from: the us, turkey, china, brazil, posing a tough dilemma for foodies, cut out the big box grocery retailer in order to get very cheap good food and you are still faced with a food miles nightmare (this conversation will make little sense to those in the us where a discussion of food miles is non-existent).