Challenge 2- Shop at a local farmers market this saturday and find ingredients needed to create a complete, fresh, organic, free-range meal for your friends or family. Comment on the foods you chose, what you made, and the feedback you received for your efforts.
Coppell Farmers Market
I went to the farmers market in old Coppell Saturday morning. There I bought asparagus, garlic scapes, lemons and artichokes. For dinner I baked salmon in kosher sea salt, with some other spices, lemon juice, and garlic scapes. I grilled the asparagus. Then I served it to my mom brother and myself. It was really good. I am a good cook, so my mom enjoyed the meal. She also got a night off and enjoyed that.
ReplyDeleteOn Saturday I went to the farmers market in Coppell. I was going to make some pasta with red sauce with some fruit and bread. I got there and was a little surprised on how much it cost, but because of it being so fresh and local, it has to be a little more expensive. When I got home and told my parents I was making dinner they were very surprised. They didn't have much faith in me! I ended up making angel hair pasta with red sauce, bread, with watermelon and peaches. It was so good! My parents really enjoyed it and were very thankful that I made dinner.
ReplyDeletefor my Blog post assignment, i decided to make a meal for my family using just local foods from the farmers market.
ReplyDeleteThough not entirely vegan, I feel that the meal was a good overall experience for my family.
Since my family is very conservative when it comes to food, i decided to make something that was very standard for an American family. I had to get there a little early to get all the components of the meal.
I bought a dozen free-range, some bacon, a loaf or artisan-looking bread, some surprisingly tasty cheese, and my favorite part, cookies from wackym's kitchen.
With all these components, I made my family grilled cheese sandwiches with eggs and bacon on the side, and wackym's cookies for dessert. (we drank water)
For Memorial Day, I made my mother's strawberry salad. I bought all the ingredients on saturday and bought the lettuce leaves and strawberries. I also used hazelnuts from a nut farm in Oregon that my family received as a christmas gift and I went to Sprouts to get a vegan salad dressing (which I was suprised to find one). Now when I ask my mother for the recipe, she started laughing when I told her that I had to cook since I do very little of that. My sister during Memorial Day asked what I was doing in the kitchen, she chuckled when I said I was cooking. Although I did get praise from my family at how good my recreation of the salad was, I am sure that my mother's is a lot better. Overall, it was fun trying to cook!
ReplyDeleteMy mom and i went shopping at the local farmers market and made salads grilled chicken and grilled veggies, it was amazing. my mom and i decided that from now on at least once a week we are gonna buy food from the farmers market and cook dinner together, my mom is like the best cook in the world... followed by me of coarse. So it was a good time and now we have something we can do together.
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