I just watched the movie "Food, Inc." a documentary that exposes the underbelly of the food industry in our country and gives us many very sound reasons for eating organic and buying locally. I highly recommend this film. Interestingly, a representative from Grant Farms was at the theatre passing out a free half dozen organic pasture raised eggs at the end of the movie. Good marketing!
Before going to the movie theatre this evening, I unpacked my CSA vegetables that had been kindly left for me by Carolyn in her cooler on my front porch. We've developed a nice routine of picking them up from the stand at alternating times, dividing them in half, and getting them to each other. My half share this week was very generous, and it looks like we are getting warmed up! Our season is late to mature because of all the rainy cold weather we had early in the season, but things are looking good now!
Today I unpacked some lovely large beets, corn on the cob, parsley, cilantro, eggplant, cabbage, peas, romaine lettuce, spinach, and a large purple kohlrabi! There were also some carrots, long radishes, onions, and of course, eggs. I remembered what worked so well for me last week: slicing up radishes ahead of time and washing the lettuce meant that at dinnertime I could just reach in the fridge and in two seconds I had a nice salad. I took that big purple kohlrabi and chopped it into small squares, and I also sliced more radishes and carrots to toss with lettuce. I'm getting good! Salads are becoming a real staple...I'm eating them twice as much as I did before CSA came along!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment