Food Writing Rules!

Hi all

It's been a while but I figured that since I just wrote a quick little review on this delicious little bit of food writing, I'd post it here. Enjoy!

This is a quick but informative little guide but the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan. It has eighty-three little rules for eating food, many of which the average person would probably love to have printed on a nice little poster for the kitchen. They all revolve around the summary statements from his books on nutrition. Quite simply...Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Some examples include: Eat close to the earth, and Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. All are accompanied by an explanation if necessary and most have charming illustrations.

Not too much to say here, it will always have a place on my cookbook shelf. Enjoy. 8/10 from this reader.

Food writing rules!

Helene

We Ate Swiss Chard and Didn't Die

When we first started this CSA I vowed to use everything, experiment with new vegetable and recipes, and improve our health. Two out of three ain't bad. We have tried new things and have definitely been eating better, but the compost had also been benefiting from our veggies.

Now that summer is waning and we have more spare time ( things at CWRC have calmed down a bit), I'm going to try again! My husband is a meatetarian, and I'm a wannabe vegetarian ( really an omnivore!)..and we meet somewhere in the middle.

For several months now we've gotten random bunches of Swiss chard, which have either gone in the compost or got "hidden" in stews. Tonight we ate it by itself ( ok, sauteed with butter and garlic) and we didn't die! It was actually pretty good, kind of peppery. If I can get up the nerve to try beets this week I'll be at the dawn of a new era.

As always, the variety in our box gives me lots to work with, this week: Swiss chard, beets, tomatoes, romaine lettuce, Napa cabbage, garlic, cilantro, zucchini and green beans. My lunch tomorrow will be TT ( totally Taproot) and is a great salad of greens, tomato, cucumber and Napa cabbage. The owner of Taproot Farms, Josh Oulton, posted on facebook that Napa cabbage is good raw in salad, we'll see!

Epicurious as always

Moi

Doesn't Get Much Better Than This!

We knew when the summer came our variety would broaden so check out this week: celery, blueberries, carrots, green bell pepper, sweet corn, red lettuce, lettuce mix, basil, cucumber, cherry tomatoes and jalapeno peppers. We've been eating corn non-stop since August started, buying both from Taproot and from Riverbreeze here in Truro, never gets old! I feel a yummy salad coming on tomorrow. Who can I pawn my celery off to :)?

August 6 Veggie Share

Meat Free Monday, Taproot Tuesday ....

That title sounds like a line from Big Bang Theory, we just need a title and food theme for the rest of the week. Seriously though, we fell off the Meat Free Monday wagon for a while because planning meals had gone right out the window with activities at CWRC filling up every spare moment.

This week from Taproot we got fennel, lettuce, garlic, zucchini, snap peas, cilantro and basil. I also bought a 10 bag of apples to help feed the pile of beasts we currently have in house that eat apples. They are golden delicious and they are HUGE. Great deal for $6. Local and yummy.

We also get a meat share every 2 weeks and this week we got a whole...duck. Hmmm, stay tuned to find out what I'm gonna do with that. Do I feed it to our bald eagle or should I be brave and cook it? If you have a good recipe for duck, I'm all ears.

Epicurious as always,

Moi

July Jumble

It's taproot Tuesday. This week featured spinach, snap peas, bunched carrots, green onion, kolrabi, strawberries and parsley. Already thawing my honey garlic sausages from the meat share for tomorrow night (other items in the meat share included a chicken and some steak). BBQ anyone? :)

Bonanza - June 18 Abundance

This week is challenging our fridge space but so much goodness. We regularly get a veggie share weekly and a meat share twice monthly, but when I saw strawberries in the fruit share I had to buy in. 

What did I get for an $8 appetizer fruit share? Lots! We got a bag of Empire apples, a container of strawberries ( first ones for the year, YUM!) and a bottle of blueberry juice. Well worth it methinks :)

Our veggie share this week had some new things to try, in particular kale and a bottle of dilly beans. I am not a huge lover of preserves but for some reason I want to learn how to do it, so I'll let you know how they are. We also got green onions, beet greens ( porcupine jumped on them as soon as I put them in her enclosure), radish, lettuce and carrots. I feel a big salad coming on this week. 

For meat we got bacon ( this stuff is amazing), 1/2 a chicken ( free range) and ....duck legs. Haven't decided yet whether I will eat the duck legs or feed them to one of the rehab animals, but since we have 3 ducks in rehab I may have to pass them on. I promised myself to be more adventurous, considering Taproot will provide some non-traditional meats ( rabbit, duck, goose). I can at least promise it won't go to waste. 

Two nights ago I made honey garlic chicken with the chicken we got two weeks ago. It was great and nice to know the animals were free range. 

Till next time,

Helene