Good morning my Fresh Food Link Up darlings!
Speaking of fresh foods - what do you consider "fresh"? Is it something you buy in a supermarket? Is it a tomato right out of your own backyard? Is the blood still dripping from the chicken neck? Does it have to be local and/or organic? Whole foods? What is fresh to you?
This week I'm hosting a giveaway to help promote fresh foods. At least, my idea of fresh foods. I believe anything that is whole, locally in season and organic to be fresh. Pastured, too, if it's meat or eggs. So I'm giving away just that: whole, locally in season and organic fresh food: in jars.
Preserving food is an art form and a skill we really need to "preserve" - it's a way for us to ethically eat tomatoes in Winter and apples in Spring and ultimately sustains us through periods of drought and famine. Not that we (read: the privileged people who can afford to walk to the nearest grocer) need to worry about that...yet. But nonetheless - it connects us to our food, our ancestors, the planet and each other. And what's cooler than that? Maybe an individualized apron or kitchen towels with clever and sexy phrases on them? How about a cookbook published by yours truly? Um, yes. If you want in on the swag, click here to enter.
Last week we had some pretty stellar sharing going on. Highlights include:
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| 10 Reasons Why I'm Not Going to Stop Eating My Arsenic-Laced Rice via Real Food Freaks |
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| Why You Should Hunt for Your Meat via MontanaSolarCreations |
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| This Week I Kicked My CSA's Ass via Clean Eats, Fast Feets |
This link-up is to encourage fresh food production, consumption,
activism, and awareness.
Please feel free to link up posts containing:
- CSA collections;
- Farmer's market treasures;
- Home grown/raised hauls;
- Recipes that feature fresh fruits and veggies that are seasonal to your area or feature local, sustainably farmed meats, eggs, and dairy;
- DIY projects and tutorials for: gardening, storing and/or preserving fresh, real foods, composting market scraps, raising chickens in your back yard, etc;
- Tips for local eating such as: tips for CSA members, how to find out what’s in season, how to make the most of your local produce, how to raise chickens, etc...
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There are definitely degrees of freshness... but I'm comfortable calling a food fresh if it hasn't been frozen and in season and local. Thanks for the party... see you around the blogsphere.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feature! This week I posted three: Homemade sourdough apple oat cereal, Estrogenic food and it's affect on my body, and a picture tutorial of my harvesting raspberry leaves. Have a great week Kristy.
ReplyDeleteThank you for featuring my post on why you should hunt for your meat! This week I shared a post on making tomatillo salsa verde and a post on how we continue to eat healthy on a tight budget. Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting. I linked up two this week. One is reviewing a store-bought pizza crust that is supposedly more healthy because it is made "with whole grain". The other link is just a post on link parties that focus on real food.
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting! I think I've got it down now, with a link in my Butternut Squash & Caramelized Onion Enchilada Casserole referring back to here.
ReplyDeleteTo me, fresh foods are those that could come into my house from a nearby location. I will eat them, drink them, freeze them or can them to put them up for later. That way most of the food I am preparing for my family will be fresh, even if I'm thawing stuff for supper!
I'm attempting to get a recipe index together before I get too many more recipes up in my blog, so I will stop playing around and get back to it.
Thanks for hosting. I posted a link for Zucchini pasta alfredo, which is completely raw and vegan. For me fresh is just picked from the garden, and not frozen or processed! I try to only eat organic, whole foods and it has had a huge impact on my health and my life!
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