Back on the Cook Wagon

The first half of this years seems to have been kind of distracting. My focus on garden and cooking became a pretty slap dash affair once the year of "Lets get involved" occurred.

That's not to say I haven't done any of either, just that the focus coming off these things seems to have been a little premature. With my attention focused more off property the little things started slipping more than I am happy with. I was doing things like not thinking to walk outside to look for dinner components before raiding the fridge or going to the organic market to buy vegetables before I knew what was available in the garden.

Now of course part of the problem is that most of the things that grow this time of year are not things I grew up eating much of. Turnips, swede, mustard greens and kale are all an adjustment. They are not lazy cook meals, I have to stretch my imagination to use them.

They are all great food sources but for me they require thought. When I have half an hour before a meeting, or I am getting a communal plate ready my adventurous streak tends to take a bit of a nose dive. All this means far too often in the last 3 months I have gone and bought ingredients when I already had stuff in the ground at home.

Luckily last week A was home on holidays which means generally I was going out less. Since I wasn't going out I didn't have much reason to be driving past the grocer. As I wasn't driving past the grocer I had much more motivation to walk around the garden looking for ingredients cause the fridge was bare and the idea of specifically going out to pick up vegetables was less than appealing. Of course walking around the garden highlighted to me that there really is food out there and I really need to "Eat The Food". It was this that prompted me to make a little pact with myself that every shared meal will contain at least one garden item.

Well, it is now near the end of the week and I am on track for success. Making a decision that this should be the rules for every meal probably isn't too sustainable for me. To keep the focus but not kill the passion I decided my aim will be a minimum of 3 meals per week.

Anyone else have a habit of forgetting to "Eat The Food"?