Carrots, cooking, community

Hi there,

This week has been full of exciting food. First off, I cooked two awesome meals (or well... helped) with Sebastian. We made tuna steaks with white rice and stir-fried broccoli and sugar snap peas on Sunday, and then we made shrimp scampi on Monday in a white wine and heavy cream sauce with garlic and citrus. Both meals were delicious. Below is a picture of the shrimp scampi. I chopped the garlic and stirred the pasta.

Chris made his first appearance at farm on Thursday because the farm shops are over so he didn't have to transport shares. Somehow we have been blessed with the warmest November ever and the weather was amazingly perfect. We dug carrots the entire time and got about 23 bags of carrots done which was pretty impressive.

After the lecture on Vegetarianism today, my apartment-mates decided to try being vegetarians. After watching chickens being slaughtered and learning more about the corrupt big corporations that control all of our meat in Food Inc., I decided that I might as well join them. As mentioned earlier, I dabbled in vegetarianism/veganism for a while before Italy where I fell off the bandwagon, and I definitely enjoyed the experience.

So we all went to price chopper today and bought tons of veggies, tofu foods, and amy's vegetable lasagnas. I also noticed that I spend way more time noting which foods are organic and tried my best to buy those. I additionally purchased applesauce and salsa from the "support your local community" shelf to help local business and reduce my carbon footprint.

I am excited to finish up the meat and fish that I already bought, so that I can begin my vegetarian adventure part two.

-Jenna