After reading about it on a poster at Mac campus and then hearing about it from her, I decided we should give it a go.

I’m talking about the McGill Organic Food Co-operative. They have a room next to Gert’s in the Shatner building where they take orders on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and hand out the goods on Tuesdays. I ordered the $15 “basic basket” which turned out to be two grocery bags full of veggie goodness. Here’s what we got:

  • Red chard (which I initially mistook for rhubarb; we nearly had chard crumble)
  • Fennel (which I thought was dill until I chewed on a bit)
  • A small cabbage
  • A leek
  • Potatoes
  • Tomatoes
  • Beets
  • Beans of some kind
  • Onions
  • A green pepper and a red pepper
  • Two courgettes (I don’t like the Z word)
  • A watermelon
  • Apples
  • One small and solitary carrot

So far I made:

  • A sag aloo type dealie out of the chard and some of the potatoes
  • Colcannon from the rest of the potatoes and the leek
  • Beans, peppers, courgettes and onions tossed in oil and roasted

One of Alton Brown’s recent Good Eats shows was all about slaw, so I’m probably going to make slaw with the beets and cabbage at the weekend.

I did have to buy some beef last night though, to reassert my carnivorous nature.