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Community Supported Agriculture -- Make Your Own Broth

Is your life and diet short on vegetables? Would shopping be less of a chore without packing, carrying and identifying the origin of your produce? Do you wish to eat with the seasons? Or support local, sustainably-driven enterprise?
May I kindly suggest an organic, CSA produce box delivered to your home as often as you please?

Support your local organic farm. Directly. Eliminate middle bodies. Contract with one of more than a dozen farms and farm cooperatives, operating in the Bay Area, that offer home or community delivery of their fresh picked produce.






Which brings me around to why I have a counter full of produce and why a weekly delivery vegetables encourages such kitchen-based enterprise as broth-making.

RECIPE for homemade VEGETABLE BROTH:

- Remove 'heads and tails' from (the more) produce (the better).

- Place in large pot, fill with filtered water, heat to boiling, reduce to simmer for 30 minutes - 60 minutes, covered.

- Allow to cool slightly, scoop vegetable parts into a colander inside a larger vessel.

- Press vegetable parts into colander -- they will also act to improve your sieve. Pour the liquid through your colander-and-vegetable-part strainer, caring not to pour so much that liquid floods the sieve, re-releasing particulate.

- Now, pour your fresh, delicious broth into jars for the week, and that pan of grain on the stove.

- You should have between two and four quarts of broth, and had the pleasure of not scrubbing your vegetable parts.

- Lastly, give these beautiful and generous vegetable parts to eager compost worms, who will in turn create plant food for more vegetables. The cycle of wealth is unbroken.


This is all fantastic because:
- Broth is delicious and nutritious and adds greater depth of flavor to grains, and beans, and de-glazed pan sauces.
- Vegetable prep for the next week is already half complete (meals come together faster and with less impediment).
- We use the whole buffalo -- no waste -- even the worms eat better with soft veggie scraps.
- Boullion is expensive, and invariably contains dry ingredients. Read ingredient lists on all such products. Whole fresh foods win every time.
- Not feeling well? Drink warm broth.
- Food becomes an even more integral and intimate part of existence.
- With a CSA box, produce is suddenly ubiquitous in your kitchen. And availability inspires.

namaste

Douglas

Posted 3/01/2007   link

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