Food is a fuel, part of many social and cultural gatherings and can also be fun to prepare. I admit it... I love all of the culture around food, trying new recipes, cookbooks, and the social aspects of eating and cooking.
In the past few years I have tried to align this with making food part of a healthy lifestyle. It's going to be a lifelong journey so I decided to start this blog...to keep myself accountable if nothing else. If others find some of this interesting, all the better.
I have also made a commitment since Sept 2012, to participate in Meat Free Mondays. We dabbled in eating at least one meat free meal per week a few times and didn't stick to it. Having it be a particular day helps with planning and so far so good. I won't say we've been perfect, a few times due to rushed days and lack of planning, we agreed to move it to another night and then didn't honour it, but it's now Apr 2013 and for the most part, we stick with it. Want to know more? Check out the website
Meat Free Mondays
Starting this month we also made a commitment to find most of our foods locally, both to decrease our impact on the environment and support a local farmer. We looked around for a while and finally settled on Taproot Farms out of Port Williams, Nova Scotia. You can check the website and see what they do but it's basically a Community Shared Agriculture ( CSA) venture. What this means basically is we have committed and invested a monthly sum to this farm, and in return we get a box of fresh veggies weekly, and a box of meat twice monthly. More on that as I go but we got our first box this week, and I've even managed to talk two work colleagues into jumping in with us. Below you can see our first produce: frozen tomatoes, onions, apples, celeriac ( not sure what to do with that yet since I don't like celery!), carrots and potatoes. The choices each week depend on what's being harvested on the farm, and late spring gives us a lot of things that were stored since last year. I'm thinking in the next few months the share will look a lot different. Very excited about this!
Epicurious as always.....Me
Week One Taproot CSA Share
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