Thursday’s Lunch

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Weaving around blindly through a migraine last Thursday, I needed food made slowly and without too much thought.  I made this salad up as I went along, bird by bird (as Annie Lamott says).

Speaking of birds, the three eggs are from Morningstar Farms (I can’t remember if we bought these ones at the Fair Food Farmstand or if we got them through Farm to City’s Wintershare program).  I soft/hardboiled them using M’s method--put them in a pan with hot tap water, boil for four minutes, cool them immediately with cold water.

I steamed some frozen lima beans that we had shelled from Mood’s Orchards in NJ, green beans from the Amish farmstand across from our co-op, and corn from our CSA.  I put these lightly steamed veggies into a bowl and mixed them with salt, pepper, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar (all non-local), plus a healthy dose of a local garlic vinegar that I love. 

Finally, I topped it all with non-local walnuts and New Jersey cranberries we bought a couple of months ago from our co-op and froze.

I love pulling out the parcels and packets of things from our big freezer, feeling cozy and chilly and amazed that summer is over, that it will be many months before we are eating these things fresh again. 

Due to the sticky gunk in the various systems, cystic fibrosis patients get about half the nutrients from food as most other people, so we have to eat twice as much.  I realized when I was taking this photograph that it is clear I am a woman with an elephantine appetite, but cut it in half in your mind and it’s a bit more managable!  (The good news is that I’m generally twice as hungry, so it’s not too much of a hardship.) Maybe my interest in food stems from having to consume a whole mess of it! 

Food good.  Let’s leave it at that.

p.s. that book is not a plant--I really am reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle!