archive for the 'Fruits & vegetables' Category

Spring salad

by Peter aka Nosher of the North @ Sunday, July 29th, 2007.

Peter shares his recipe for “spring salad” aka egg-less chopped egg salad.

Montreal farmshare weeks 3 & 4

by Peter aka Nosher of the North @ Sunday, July 22nd, 2007.

Peter talks about his CSA box.

My Montreal CSA box - baskets #1 & #2

by Peter aka Nosher of the North @ Sunday, July 8th, 2007.

Peter (aka Nosher of the North), the Montreal Ethicurean contributor, talks about his CSA boxes.

Montreal Community Garden Season in full swing

by Peter aka Nosher of the North @ Friday, June 29th, 2007.

I have made mention several times of my community garden plot, most recently when I made Sorrel Potato Soup from the first growth of sorrel, which is a perennial and returns to the plot each year. I also mentioned that the garden season had a very late start this year due to soil analysis results […]

Spring harvests in Montreal

by Peter aka Nosher of the North @ Sunday, June 17th, 2007.

Spring is sprung — even though it is officially over in a few days — and our farmers markets are finally showing some local produce besides last years carrots.

Most importantly, asparagus is here. I have been buying and grilling it for almost a week now, and I don’t see Noshette and I getting bored of […]

Apricots and a delicious way to cook them

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Thursday, June 14th, 2007.

The Bay Area is in the middle of its short season for fresh apricots.
The apricot is thought to have originated in China, with first cultivation by humans around 2000 BCE. The fruit spread west along the Silk Road as caravans carried gems, spices, ceramics and other fine goods between East and West. By the […]

Sorrel Potato Soup

by Peter aka Nosher of the North @ Friday, May 25th, 2007.

Sometimes I get so pissed off by the world we live in, all I want to do is scream.
Instead, I garden.
I can’t believe what people are putting into my food, into your food, just to get rich. Is money that important?
I don’t make a lot of money, but I have an apartment, a television, a […]

Montreal Community Gardens Contaminated

by Peter aka Nosher of the North @ Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007.

By this time last year, I had already cleaned up my community garden plot and sowed my seeds, after laying down a few bags of organic manure bought from a farmer in the Eastern Townships.
Here is what my plot looked like the first week of May, 2006. You can see Noshette and my garden partner […]

Hurray for Hogtown (or as some call it, Toronto)

by Peter aka Nosher of the North @ Wednesday, April 11th, 2007.

To celebrate Passover, a time when the Jews wandered 40 years in the desert searching for the land of milk & honey, Noshette and I wandered 4 hours westward in search of organic milk and wild honey (and some other sustainable foods). Noshette was born and raised in Toronto, so we were going there to […]

Digest: School lunches shifting, bisphenol A debate, India’s farming crisis

by Ethicurean @ Saturday, April 7th, 2007.

Bye-bye, fruit cocktail: The USDA is proposing to bring school lunches more in line with the federally recommended dietary guidelines — more fruits, vegetables and whole grains, less full-fat meat and dairy. Since the government saves money on school lunches by taking excess commodities (such as meat and cheese) off the hands of large agribusiness, […]

Focus on Florida Food - Part II

by Peter aka Nosher of the North @ Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007.

Josh’s Organic Market - Hollywood, Florida
After our 1-nighter in the Gulf Coast of Florida, where we saw a memorable Leon Redbone concert and enjoyed a good meal of local fish and seafood, Noshette of the North and I drove back to the Atlantic coast along the famous “Alligator Alley”, where we saw plenty of gators […]

They’re so fresh and fine

by Erika aka Omniwhore @ Sunday, April 1st, 2007.

My wonderful hubby E. Ho and I were wandering the Sunset Valley Farmer’s Market when we saw an enormous line winding around the booth at Gundermann Farm. “Wonder what’s going on over there,” said E. Ho.
“Oh my god,” I exclaimed. “Strawberries!” There were tons of them, in little green baskets for $3 […]

Nationwide panic from a 50-acre field

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Monday, March 26th, 2007.

With the release of the final report on the E. coli-contaminated spinach crisis of 2006 (download the PDF), much has been written about the subject in the last few days. My attention was grabbed by four parts of the San Francisco Chronicle’s March 24 article about new produce-handling guidelines:

“California and the FDA released their […]

It’s a hard knocked-up life

by Erika aka Omniwhore @ Monday, February 26th, 2007.

Being an Ethicurean and eating for two is more challenging than I thought.
For those who didn’t know, E. Ho and I are expecting. We’re three months along, and this is the first week that I’ve been able to log into this site without wanting to hurl. Seriously, it’s a landmine. Any mention […]

Survey: What do you get in your CSA basket?

by Peter aka Nosher of the North @ Wednesday, February 21st, 2007.

I am very happy to be eating again.
I am also pretty thankful that my CSA has taken me back.
During the summer months, I looked forward to each and every Thursday, which was the day when I could pick up my box of local organic vegetables. I never knew what I would be eating over the […]

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