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Long Beach, Fanny Bay
Just back from a meander up-island, starting with Long Beach
where we enjoyed a side trip to Tofino and stumbled upon SoBo for supper. Some lovely food, including a smoked fish appetizer
grilled oyster with miso-mayo
mushroom enchilada
beet, goat cheese and walnut salad
and enormous scallops with a risotto cake
Walked a trail where local berries were ripe for picking: salmonberries, salal berries, huckleberries and thimbleberries.
On to Fanny Bay where supper featured some magnificent grilled spot prawns (from the Fanny Bay Oysters Fish Shop at Buckley Bay).
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Making food better
An interesting piece on absorption of nutrients from food on NPR this morning. Among the things they discussed:
- you need oil to absorb nutrients from foods. Not necessarily a lot, but some. (So, out with that horrible no-fat dressing!)(You also need oil to carry flavours across the tastebuds, so it’s an all-round good idea.)
- cooking vegetables with caratenoids – carrots, in particular – is actually better than eating them raw as it makes the caratenoids easier to absorb
- microwaving might help to preserve antioxidants better than other cooking methods because of short cooking times
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Home again
If you found Home, the movie difficult to view on Vidoosh, you might like to know it’s miraculously reappeared on Youtube. Check it out if you haven’t already. 2,189,173 viewers are with you so far.
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In her latest collection, Rhona McAdam navigates the dark places of human movement through the earth and the exquisite intricacies lingering in backyard gardens and farmlands populated by insects and pollinators, all the while returning to the body, to the tune of staccato beats and the newly discovered symmetries within the human heart.
“…A beautiful, filling collection, Larder is a set of poems to read at the change of the seasons, to appreciate alongside a good meal, and to remind yourself of the beauty in everything, even the things you may not appreciate before opening McAdam’s collection….”
Rhona McAdam is a writer, poet, editor, and Registered Holistic Nutritionist with a Master’s in Food Culture from Italy and a deep-rooted passion for ecology and urban agriculture. Her work spans corporate and technical writing to poetry and creative nonfiction, often exploring the vital links between what we eat and how we live. Based in Victoria, BC, and available via Zoom, Rhona is always open to new writing commissions, readings, or workshops on nutrition and the culinary arts.
