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CSAs: Good for Dinner and the Earth

nachogeek — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:49:44 +0000

It’s my first time trying out CSAs and I’m happy to say yum! What a wonderful idea. The concept is simple. Sign up for a delivery of some type of food directly from the source and basque in the delicious, seasonal, local bounty you receive. Perfection!

CSAs are a pretty new concept to me but are certainly not new themselves. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Farmers organize themselves to create a food delivery that embodies the freshest food available. Depending on the organization and your preference, delivery schedules vary as does your ability to select certain items. The bottom line is you end up with fresh food in your home.

About ten years ago vegetables were certainly not well represented in my diet and thoughts about taking care of the earth were few and far between. Something about having children piqued my desire to make sure I teach them about healthy eating and being good to Mother Earth.

Currently we’re subscribed to a produce and meat CSA. This ensures we are eating fruits, vegetables and meat that is in season, local and chocked full of vitamins. I know our food is fresh, yummy and happy! I think happy food is better for the body. I feel food offered through CSAs is happier and healthier because they are grown and tended to by people who are passionate about their product. This results in delicious products that I am happy to purchase. It’s also great to know that the food we are eating comes from close to home.

Besides the amazing health and environmental benefits, I love how CSAs are a cure to my indecisiveness about what to eat and apprehension about purchasing food with which I’m not familiar but that is super healthy. Up to this point my vegetable diet was not very robust. I found myself sticking to ones I cooked with before. Now since someone else decides what to eat this week and delivers it, I feel a huge relief. I am now free to use my energy to research new recipes, which I love to do. Having varying ingredients each week allows me to express my creativity and try some new things to come up with delicious meals. This process also motivates me to find ways to consume all the goodness from our mystery boxes.

Between the relief of the burden of shopping, added benefits of knowing I’m supporting farmers in my community and the extra boost my body gets from eating more vegetables and humanely raised meat, I SAY YUM to CSAs! Why don’t you try one out this week?

Welcome to Say Yum: The Next Generation

nachogeek — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:11:10 +0000

And we’re back…It’s been six years to the day since our last post and it’s 11-1-11. What a crazy trip it has been. If you are a new or old visitor to the site, welcome!

Life changes, so will Say Yum. We’ve learned a lot during our crash course in having two kids, two years apart. Say Yum will reflect the things we have learned and continue to learn through raising a family. Our goal is to provide you with useful information to help make your life enjoyable and delicious.

Say Yum is expanding beyond the world of food. It is now the place to find helpful tips, ideas, and experiences about how to make life easier and more delicious so we can all enjoy life a little more. In addition to recipes and food articles, you’ll find green living tips, product reviews, kids stuff, home organization and management tips.

Thanks for being here and we look forward to meeting and helping you.

Cheers!

Say Yum 2005-11-01 – Nuke-lear Carrot Cake

Devan — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 02:11:00 +0000

We lost our chance to do a recipe given to us by The Invincibles so we’re doing the one we we’re going to give them We’re making Microwave Carrot Cake

Tonight’s music was found on The Podsafe Muisc Network. Here’s what we played:

Refunct by GrooveHead

Petaluma Groove by David Henderson

Living For Free by The Shades of Grey

Listen to the Say Yum podcast!

SayYum-2005-11-01.mp3 [16.2mb (34:22) 64kbps]

Say Yum 2005-10-23 – Lost Dog Soup

Devan — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:27:00 +0000

This evening we recap the story of loosing a friend’s dog while we make up a batch of black bean soup with cumin and jalapeno.

Tonight’s music was found on The Podsafe Muisc Network. Here’s what we played:

Herbie by Wazoo

Follower by Cats and Jammers

Funk Revolution by Junkstar

Listen to the Say Yum podcast!

SayYum-2005-10-23.mp3 [17.7mb (38:22) 64kbps]

Update:

You can now check out the slideshow of Flickr pictures.

Say Yum 2005-10-14 – The Perfect Reuben

Devan — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:21:00 +0000

Our guest chef Kevin is back with us tonight to try and make the perfect Reuben sandwich. He’s brough some premium Kobe beef pastrami to help us get to perfection.
We’re having salad with Green Goddess dressing and Cheese Pennies which we’ll be covering in a future show.

Tonight’s music was found on Garageband and The Podsafe Muisc Network. Here’s what we played:

Disco Town by Milk

Thelonious Funk by Frank Constentino

The Last Battle by Spirit Zone

Tequila by Miles Partridge

Driving in the 70s by Trap Door

Listen to the Say Yum podcast!

SayYum-2005-10-14.mp3 [18.3mb (39:37) 64kbps]

Update:

You can now check out the slideshow of Flickr pictures.

Say Yum 2005-10-11 – Chicken Now, Pesto Later

Devan — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 03:36:00 +0000

Hey! We’ve been gone so long I can barely remember how to do this…ya right. It’s like riding a bike…sorta

So tonight Devan’s making a big batch of pesto with the last of this year’s basil. We’re packing it away in ice trays to make serving sized chunks for use later. But tonight we’re making sour cream and onion potatoe chip encrusted chicken nuggets with a honey mustard dipping sauce. Listen along and maybe we’ll post the recipes later.

All of tonight’s music was found on garageband.com. Here’s what we played:

Baked & Burned by Mama’s Gravy

Funk McSunke by Mother Funk Conspiracy

Chicken Shack by New Orleans Juice

Super Market Man by Radio Noise

Mix It Up by Terry Jaye Band

Listen to the Say Yum podcast!

SayYum-2005-10-11.mp3 [16.9mb (36:51) 64kbps]

Say Yum 2005-08-30 – Chip Buffet

Devan — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:36:00 +0000

We’re podcasting tonight with our old friend Kevin who was our guest chef many podcasts back. He joined us on last weeks SF podcasters meetup and gives us his outsiders opinion. We also recap some of our trip to canada as well as prep Kev on his upcoming trip. Longer than usual, but worth it.

We played a mashup and a bunch of tunes off the podsafe music network:

Junkstar with Do the right thing

Madsumo with 24 hours in the life

The Ride Theory with I’m on board

Matthew Ebel with Trees

Listen to the Say Yum podcast!

SayYum-2005-08-30.mp3 [29.5mb (1:01:53) 64kbps]

Say Yum 2005-08-04 – Eggplant Grenade

Devan — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 04:13:00 +0000

Its been a whole month since our last podcast but we’re back. Tonight we’re preparing some mediterranean treats for a potluck this weekend. We’re making Hummus, Baba Ganoush, Tabouli Salad, and Tzatziki. In the process we blew up a few eggplant, hence the post title.

Listen to the Say Yum podcast!

SayYum-2005-08-04.mp3 [20.9mb (45:40) 64kbps]

Say Yum 2005-07-04 – Rub Your Meat

Devan — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 05:07:00 +0000

Tonight we’re cooking it up in our backyard over the grill and trying some of Denise’s Dry Rubs courtesy of Chris from the ThinkFuture Podcast and his wife Denise.

Listen to the Say Yum podcast!

SayYum-2005-07-04.mp3 [16.5mb (35:58) 64kbps]

Say Yum 2005-06-29 – Butter Believe We’re Back

Devan — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:21:00 +0000

We’re back from a few weeks off from podcasting cooking up some chicken kabobs with avocado butter and playing some mashups. Enjoy!

Listen to the Say Yum podcast!

SayYum-2005-06-29.mp3 [15.0mb (37:19) 56kbps]

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