Tuesday, September 2, 2014

WEEK 1: Dog Days

Happy Vegan MoFo 2014! For the first week of the MOFO I'm making the most of the last days of glorious gardens with some serious salad. This particular "Ode to Produce" includes massaged kale, red onion, red grape, pineapple; and some "fresh-from-the-garden" cucumber, jalapeno, and tomato.  No dressing necessary --not with the individual elements so full of flavor-- but I do wonder what dressings others would suggest drizzling over this sweet and spicy combination.


A feast for the eyes. This reminds me a of a great book I read this year by Michael Pollan: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education.  The writing is inviting, and calls to mind the readers' earliest personal garden experiences, and then moves on to dissect our historical and culturally-influenced reading of landscape and garden spaces.