GET FRESH, the new food shop with the cute name that went into the space where the used appliance store on Fifth Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets used to be, looks very promising.

You can shop at the shop OR shop online and they DELIVER. How cool is that?

They’re right next door to the Brooklyn Superhero Store and they serve pre-prepared and ready-to-cook organic food. You’re probably wondering what I mean. 

Well, for $35 I got an order of Short Ribs that’ll serve 2-3 people. It came in a clear plastic box with the cooked short ribs, a red wine sauce, potatoes and veggies. Oh, cooking instructions were on the bottom of the box.

red wine braised short ribs
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We
took our time with this one.  Succulent grassfed short ribs are
marinated 24 hours in red wine, then slow braised in an oven until the
beef is falling off the bone and practically melts in.

At home, I had to saute the short ribs, add the veggies and the gravy and simmer for 20 minutes in a dutch oven. Figuring out what a dutch oven is caused quite a circus around here.

Hepcat seemed to think it was a pot with a cover. So that’s what we used. Someone on Yelp has a pretty good description of the place.

You’ll purchase meals or recipes with the component parts all prepped
and almost ready. The final step, really, is your cooking the meal. In
as little as 5 minutes you can have a good, mostly organic, and most of
all, delicious meal after following the really easy instructions in the
package. The whole "ready to cook" philosophy is fantastic and such a
time saver, especially when you want to plan meals for a whole week and
they’ll help you out.

You know exactly what’s in the package,
too; nothing artificial or insanely chemical. Organic food, and whole.
An added bonus? All the packaging is completely biodegradable,
compostable and/or recyclable.

I also got an order of Mac and cheese, enough for about 4 people for a side dish. It was $14.

mac ‘n’ cheese

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We
use four delicious artisanal cheeses in our version of mac ‘n’ cheese:
fontina, gruyere, parmesan and raw milk cheddar from the Hudson River
Valley.  A heat and serve…

I wasn’t that crazy about the short ribs because they were very fatty (but short ribs are often fatty). But the sauce and the veggies were very good. The mac ‘n’ cheese was delicious and very cheesy. Wickedly good. It was filled with cheese and more cheese. But really delicious.

There are definitely things on the menu that are lighter and more healthy. Maybe that’s why the short ribs and the Mac and Cheese were the only items left at 6:30 pm the day the shop was mentioned in the New York Times food section. The place was completely picked over.

"We even had people from Manhattan in here today," one of the people who works there told me.

I will definitely go back to Get Fresh and try some of the other entrees. They’re very big on local ingredients and I really want to try a lot of the offerings in there. They were giving out tastes of some incredibly delicious chocolate truffles. Get Fresh has been beautifully renovated. It’s definitely worth a visit.