Hi there, I'm Lynn - Mugino's friend. I've been very fortunate this year with my veggie crop. Must have been the chicken poo that kept the squirrels off the patch. There is good incentive for the environment to eat food that's grown within 100 miles of your house. For the entire month of August, I committed myself to all things vegetarian (from my garden) and I survived on 7 different kinds of veggies that I grew. I call it the 50 ft diet :) cause that's probably the approximate distance from my garden to the basement kitchen. The dishes were not fancy and kept very simple - the zucchini flower quesadillas had an interesting flavour.
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I envy your veggie garden. The herbs, zucchini and eggplants you've shared with me were incredibly fresh-tasting. The eggplants were particularly meaty, which is a quality I love in a hardy vegetable.
By the way, I am equally distracted by the sight of your veggies as well as those killer arms of yours!
Killer arms indeed. I didn't realize (right away) that it is you Lynn. Great arms and you look tanned :-) I was thinking “how is it that I don't know about this "sista" who is friends with Mugino and boy her zucchini looks familiar.”
To echo Mugino's points, I have to say that I purchased some store bought kale and honestly, the taste was very different to the Lynn homegrown version. The store bought was less tasty in the flavour that kale owns. A sort of citrusy, bitter, green fresh. Lynn's homegrown worked well with salt in that I didn't have to add as much as I need to with the store bought to release the flavour. I thoroughly enjoyed Lynn's homegrown kale
Mug now that you have a backyard you can finally have your own garden. :)
Lynn, fantastic idea you had and congrats on following through with it. Many years ago we had a veggie garden and the food tasted so much better and different then what I got at the local grocery chain.
I was just talking with a friend today about buying local foods instead of anything shipped from a continent away (for flavour, economy, low carbon footprint, health and to support local farmers). I'm really not impressed with how bland and unflavourful many fruits/veggies have been tasting over the past few years. I'm guessing its due to them being cut too soon and treated with who knows what chemicals.
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