I picked up my share from KEG this afternoon and in it I got carrots, potatoes, sunchokes (aka Jerusalem artichokes), lentil sprouts (from 5 different kinds of lentils!), lettuce, salad greens, wild leeks, and green onions. With my share, I also get a $20 credit that I can use to buy anything else from the table. I chose eggs from an Amish farm, sausages, and blueberry jam. So tonight for dinner we had bangers and mash and nearly everything on that plate was from my share: I roasted two of the sausages in the oven sprinkled with some of the wild leek and green onions. I made some nice and fluffy mashed potatoes with this week’s potatoes and served it all alongside a very colourful if simple salad of lettuce, lentil sprouts and grapefruit. Link here to pictures of my shares.

After a quick browse through Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, I came across a recipe for potato provençal. It seemed easy enough – rub 2lb potatoes clean, slice them, slice 2-3 tomatoes, place them in a large baking dish with 3 tbps olive oil, salt, pepper, some olives (I added some capers as well) and place in the oven for about an hour. After about 40 mins I added 1 1/2 cup of shredded cheese and the result was sublime. We had it with fresh spring greens for dinner:

And with a cabbage salad and stir-fried radish greens for lunch the next day:

We stayed on an island, at Skeleton Lake, with no access to a car or grocery stores. That meant we had to bring all the food we would need for a week. The friend who picked us up (and whose cottage we were renting for the week) took us to some local markets and we loaded up on seasonal veggies – a box of tomatoes, lots of corn, raspberries, strawberries, green beans, onions, etc. We had brought up some meat from Cumbrae’s just because we knew we would have access to a barbecue.

We used to live in a house in Montreal and then on a townhouse and the only thing I really miss from having a house is the bbq. I looooove grilled veggies and would rather cook a lot on the bbq. So we exploited it to the fullest at the cottage. Some days I even barbecued for breakfast! Nothing fancy – just a tomato & cheese sandwich made into a panini on the grill. Very yummy. Here are some of the meals we had up north:

Hamburger with grilled tomato salsa, roasted corn, and grilled cauliflower.

Fingerling potatoes, spicy Italian-style sausage from Cumbrae’s, and arugula salad with strawberries, raspberries, tamari nuts, tomatoes, and a grilled onion

I had some leftover steelcut oats from a previous morning breakfast so I had it for lunch one day with kale, tomatoes, and a fried egg on top