1. Order 2. Pick Up 3.Prepare into Super Fantastico Food for the Fam

This Blog is meant to be a journal of my personal Purple Porch usage. Although I am one of the proud founders of the Purple Porch Co-op, the one that came up with it's iconic title, and helped in the initial planning stages, my involvement in the co-op since the beginning has been almost exclusively as a customer. I should disclose that I am also the husband of the current president, Tama Crisovan and neighbor and friend of manager, Greg Koehler. However, like many people my time to interact with the two of them given our diverse lives is limited. And, I think they now realize that my involvement with Purple Porch as a facilitator waned because my interest in the daily running waned as well so they know, for the most part, I don't want to talk about PPC when we do have time to hang together.

However, as the person in our household that prepares 80% of the dinners, 90% of breakfasts, and my own lunches, I do appreciate having PPC as a food source in our community. It is from this pragmatic perspective that I'll be posting in this blog.

On a weekly basis I'll share the implementation of the three steps of using the PPC: Ordering on-line, picking up on Wednesday, and finally using the purchases during the week.

I'll post a list of what I buy each week and write a post explaining what I was planning on making when I ordered each item.

On the pick up day I'll write all the juicy gossip I pick up when I go to Lang Lab to pick up my goodies. No, just kidding. I'll simply write about the elegant style of the beautiful people that shop at the Porch. No, that's not it either. I'll just write about add-ons we pick up or omissions from my initial list. I have to admit that three times out of four I don't go to the pick up because I stay home to stay with a kid working on homework, to get more work done, or to park my keester in a chair while Tama goes and chats with everyone.

Then in the prep step (that would be step 3) I'll share what I actually make including a recipe. I don't pretend to be a chef, but I do make food that my kids eat and ease of preparation and clean-up are important to me.

So, there's the intro to the site. I hope it proves to be somewhat useful to you and a whole-lot entertaining.