I began the endeavor by baking a loaf of whole wheat bread, while Scott roasted off an organic turkey breast. We used the bread for toast and sandwiches all week. We also used the roasted turkey on our sandwiches, rather than our usual deli meat.
The goal was to cook once on the weekend and make the food last for the week. We did pretty well on this...here is what we ate:
Monday: Roasted turkey, pine-nut rice pilaf, roasted cauliflower (purchased from the farmer's market infront of my school)
Tuesday: Turkey Cobb Salad with homemade croutons (from the bread I baked, and we used our homemade pickled eggs in the salad...more on this later!)
Wednesday: Turkey-Pepper Papparadelle (the noodles were made from the homemade pasta dough that we found in the freezer)
Thursday: Roasted carrots & meatloaf (ok, we were tired of turkey!)
Friday: I actually went out with my husband on a Friday night!!! (gotta love his new schedule)
Saturday morning: Soft scrambled organic eggs with chives and creme fraiche on toast (chives from our garden, homemade creme fraiche, and homemade toast!)
It really means a lot to us to actually know exactly where our food is from and what is in it. Maybe part of this is watching too many food documentaries...if you're interested in learning about our food industry I highly recommend watching Food Inc. and The Future of Food. We really have power with our forks!
Turkey-Pepper Papardelle
Whole Wheat Toast
7 comments:
oh food inc. is on my netflix cue. and i like 'in defense of food' by michael pollen - that's what inspired me to try to eat more locally. and wholey.
question though: isn't flour processed?
oh, and i'm totally impressed. that a lot of food-making for a week!
YUMMMMMMMMM!!!!
just saw food inc a couple of weeks ago. HAD to stop at a mcdonalds for coffee on during a long drive (the closest starbucks was over 50 miles away) and dryheaved the whole time i was there. good work with eating that way regardless of how much more work it is.
we're trying the same thing here. and by "we", i mean "not jamie". he's still insistent on picking up bags of double crispy tyson chicken strips. grr.
Our flour is ground but not put through the chemical "bleaching" process.
i buy unbleached flour. didn't really understand what that meant. now I think Scott explained it. feel better about purchase now. no need to bleach flour. yuck.
was told about Food Inc. Afraid I'd never eat anything again. Yuck.
Your bread looks amazing!
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