This week’s excitement was helping out Terralicious, the gardening & cooking school at Haliburton farm. There was a hungry crew to feed lunch to, while they worked to restore the wetlands area that’s attached to the farm and which the university uses to study amphibians and other wetlands wildlife.
Tubs of farm-grown lettuce to wash.
Some sage butter for the squash pasta sauce:
Rather beautiful appetizers: cucumber slices topped with berry cream and tayberries
and anchovy butter and radish.
Much enjoyed.
Two kinds of pasta sauce; the squash and sage, and/or the arugula pesto with sautéed tomato halves.
And for dessert, some divine crumble, of rhubarb and berries and apples, before
and after, with a dollop of ginger cream.
Meanwhile, in the park, a couple of hummingbird babes are nearly ready to fly…
Blackberries (Himalayan) getting pollinated…
Blackberries (Trailing) getting ready to pick…
Canada Day was fine… many namesake geese on the Gorge, gorging in the sun.
Some garlic scapes on offer
and a bit of Morris dancing.
And here’s my little tribute to the day… Anton scored a couple of free treats from the dog biscuit lady.
Hi-
Joey here, from Meatless Monday. I just wanted to thank you for writing such a thoughful post on meatlessness and mentioning our campaign specifically. You write of Mark Bittman and his book Foot Matters. Bittman (who is one of my personal favorites- foodie writer wise) has also been public in stating that he and his family observe Meatless Monday ever week.
Many foodie bloggers think it's fun to start a weekly Meatless Monday column. You feel free to use any of our recipes or your own. The only criteria is that it must be meatless. Most post a recipe every Monday as well as stories or pictures or videos for how their delectable Meatless creation came to be. Do you think you'd be interested in doing weekly Meatless Monday posts?
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Dear Rhona,
We avoid meat and fish a couple of times each week, sometimes a whole week, but not necessarily on a Monday! What I want to know, though, is what the fast the Cretan men observe consists of. Do they eat no food for four days or so, or just fruit or veg., or what?
Carry on brilliantly!
Love, Leah
Hi Leah,
Here are the Greek Orthodox fasting rules as reported by the researchers. The fasting described restricts some of the foods you can eat (esp. meat and dairy products); as you can see, if strictly observed, you'd be watching your diet very carefully for more than half the year:
The Orthodox Church specifies dietary restrictions and a fasting for a total of 180–200 d annually. The faithful are advised to avoid olive oil, meat, fish, milk, eggs and cheese every Wednesday and Friday, with the exception of the week after Christmas, Easter and the Pentecost.
There are three principal fasting periods annually. The first of these is a total of 40 d preceding Christmas when meat, dairy products and eggs are not allowed, while fish and olive oil are allowed except on Wednesdays and Fridays.
The second is a period of 48 d preceding Easter (Lent). During Lent fish is allowed only on 2 d (25 March and Palm Sunday) whereas meat, dairy products and eggs are not allowed. Olive oil consumption is allowed only during weekends.
Third, there is a total of 15 d in August (the Assumption) when the same dietary rules apply as for Lent with the exception of fish consumption, which is allowed only on 6 August (Metamorphosis). Seafood such as shrimps, squid, cuttlefish, octopus, lobsters, crabs as well as snails are allowed on all fasting days throughout the year.
Those tays are the colour of Canada, the flavour all its own, beautiful and strong, ripening all at once in celebration of a wonderful piece of our earth. Thanks for capturing it.
-E.