Friday, June 27, 2008

Worm for a week

The weekend:

A yummy lunch of pea shoots
with an asian sauce over ramen
noodles & a little cold tofu....and
some sorrel leaves, which are
an herb by the way, so do not
cook them like I did or they
turn brown! Don't make my
mistake! Slice and add as a
garnish.

I need to learn more
about the less popular herbs.
I need to stroll the herb gardens at our CSA and pay closer attention to those lesser known varieties. But until then, can any of you out there suggest a good website with photos of different culinary herbs?
Popsicles on the porch steps: frozen layers of soy yogurt & fresh strawberry puree.

Tuesday:
Ryan had his first day of
"Farm Camp" at our CSA.
He brought a snack, lunch,
and contribution to the
farm's daily Stone Soup.
Each day all of the farm
employees, work-for-
sharers, regular
shareholders fulfilling
their work hours, volunteers, and kids are welcome to share lunch at the big picnic tables under the apple tree. Everyone contributes something for the vegan soup, or brings along something to accompany the meal such as bread, cookies, etc.

Ryan brought a can of
organic black beans and
some barley for the soup.
And he brought his own
bowl and spoon, since
everyone either brings
their own dishes or uses
the big wooden bowls that
belong to the farm.

In addition to Stone Soup, Ryan brought a bento with Alton Brown's Cold-Fashioned Potato Salad, tofu salad sandwiches, an orange slice, cucumbers, & carrots. He had an organic juice box, which I had frozen beforehand to use in place of an ice pack in his lunchbox.
For his snack he had an Odwalla bar, and of course a big bottle of water.

The kids harvested baby carrots, drew pictures, and made their own wormeries to take home. So we now have a pet worm living in the dining room for the week.

Our CSA share is starting to grow:
- basil, thyme, oregano...and a few other's I'm not sure of! (that's what happens when I'm not there to pick them and my husband takes over.)
- 3 quarts of strawberries
- 1 head green leaf lettuce
- 2 quarts sugar snap peas
- 1 large zucchini
- 1/2 lb. mixed baby greens
- baby beets with greens
- 1/2 lb. spinach
- a dozen garlic scapes
- 18 stems rainbow swiss
chard
- a bunch of baby carrots
with greens

Dinner was whole grain
spaghetti with zucchini,
garlic & garlic scapes,
oregano, & capers. So
delicious.



Thursday:
Ryan's lunch for farm camp: strawberries; almonds; fresh peas; mini-corn muffin; carrots; crescent roll sandwich with smoked Tofurky slices, soy cheese, & lettuce. Not shown: juice box, Luna bar, water.

Lunch at home: pasta
with leftover zucchini
sauce mixed with a
marinara sauce & sliced
green olives. Oh man
was this good!




From the local
Farmer's Market:
- 1 loaf white bread
- 1 loaf wheat bread
- red new potatoes
- 2 tomatoes
- 1 green bell pepper

What makes these local
greenhouse grown tomatoes
so tasty is that they are
sown right into the ground inside the greenhouse.

Ryan shows off his wormery.

5 comments:

Jumbleberry Jam said...

What a great CSA you have! So fun for Ryan :=). Love his wormerie!! How's that baby and Mama? Head down and getting ready to move, I hope.

Anonymous said...

Where do you buy your bento boxes? I have one from Laptop lunch but I like the look of character bento's (Totoro, etc.)

veganf said...

inanna - Baby is finally head down! Trying to wait patiently...

liz - I buy most of mine on eBay because I really like the characters and honestly it's the cheapest without going to the west coast or Japan. Whenever my husband does go to Japan I do try to get him to buy me stuff though!
Lunch In A Box has a good list of other bento buying options:
http://lunchinabox.net/2008/06/09/online-stores-for-bento-gear/
And a new bento store locator:
http://lunchinabox.net/bento-store-locator/
There are some really cute ones on SugarCharms, but they are rather pricey: http://www.sugarcharms.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=50&zenid=271d28ea7a2a0d9e47b8c820ee286f75

APLACEFORUS said...

Ryan looks so proud of that little worm!! Yeah for JULY and the arrival of little SPECK!!

Rachel said...

I want to go to that food camp at the CSA! Wow, how fantastic.
I am really wanting to more get involved in an urban reclamation garden here and that is a fantastic idea to plan for the garden (it's huge and now has 3 locations). I plan to be getting some things going with the garden soon after this baby gets here.

What a GREAT thing to hear about, that CSA camp. Totally want to put one of these together for the urban garden.