Fresh Organic Food!

I watched a truly inspiring film last night called Food, Inc. It explores through first hand accounts how the production of food in America has changed over the past 50 years. It was shocking, eye opening and motivating! I spent today buying produce and cooking some things that I can eat over the next few days. I'm tired from being on my feet all day cooking, yet I am filled with excitement about changing my diet for the better. The haul:

Washing with some BIO vegetable cleaner:

Rinsing.

And drying.


And Cooking! I made a summer Borsht. My Russian great grandmother would be so proud. It is a delicious pink color, filled with diced cucumber, beets and scallions. Gets better as the days pass which is good as this will last me into next week.

For lunch I made the following sandwich in the sandwich maker - it was so amazing.
Marble Rye
cream cheese
red bell pepper
onion
cucumber
tomato
olive oil
salt and pepper
OMG! so good.
My snack was tomatoes with fresh homemade Blue cheese dressing.

And a Zucchini Basil Parmesan strata just came out of the oven for dinner.

I'm tuckered. Must get horizontal.

Beginning our Vegetable Garden

Five raised beds for my first attempt at Vegetable gardening! The hard work of my hubby who slaved with a pick ax to loosen our hard pan earth. The rock pile is home to many small green frogs who have shown their faces this week after a long winter underground. The fence is lined with young lilacs, a patch of raspberries, one honeycomb buddleja and a mock orange tree. These are all so small now, but one day will provide some great privacy and a wildlife refuge.

StrawberriesOnions, "New York Early".
Kohlrabi, my mom slices these up to make sandwiches with butter and salt.
Spinach...I add these young leaves to fruit smoothies.

Warm weather veg in the dining room "greenhouse".
Loads of Basil...

Heirloom Tomatoes, Sweet peas and Portulaca.

The Vegetable garden will also have:
Asian Greens, Chinese broccoli
Beets, Italian Heirloom
Butternut Squash
Carrots, Rainbow blend
Chives
Leeks
Lettuce, Simpson Black seeded
Lettuce, Mesclun Mix
Parsley
Parsnips
Pumpkin, Sugar Pie
Purslane (Ghandi's favorite snack)
Swiss Chard, Rainbow
Watermelon, Small Sugar Baby