Category: Local Food

This Week's CSA Delivery

This week, I got: sorrel, carrots, red potatoes, mixed greens, garlic scapes, cilantro and a sunflower. They were out of bok choy.  Looks like more garlic roast potatoes and salad. Last week I made a nice salad with the beets, horseradish and a whatever veggies I had in the fridge.

Here are the lilies from last week in full bloom. I asked and they are not edible, but rather poisonous.  Good thing they didn’t make it to the stir fry. That’s the basil I got two weeks earlier. Doing quite well, I’ve been pruning it for my marinara sauce. The spider plant however, is doing poorly. I suspect it did not like the food spikes I gave it.

This week's CSA delivery

Veggies!

And the basket is getting bigger. Swiss chard, mixed greens, radishes, beets, bok choy, potatoes, garlic scapes and horseradish. An interesting basket… What to do.  Chinese style stir fried greens, rainbow salad and more garlic smashed potatoes, with horseradish? Also a bouquet of lilies.

Clive Burger

This is a burger joint I can eat at. Hormone and antibiotic free beef. Looks promising and I wonder if it lives up to the hype? The burger was average, and far better than the dried out Alley Burger that I waited an hour for. (This one came in 15 minutes). The toppings were fresh and free, I added fried onions and mushrooms. Tasty burger, but Dairy Lane’s burgers are juicier. Fries were crisp and thick, only problem was that they were heavy on the salt. I had the vanilla milkshake, that was really good. We only ordered one order of fries; it’s big enough for two. They had extra so they gave us another one for free. Nice gesture, but we saved them for later.  Oh, and the artwork is kind of neat. Will come by again if I’m in the area.

 
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Fuel For Gold

I’ve tried this place a few times and clearly keep on coming back. They have a hearty bean, lentil and wild rice salad. Their sandwiches and paninis are really good.  They use quality local and organic ingredients. Their homemade cookies are big enough to share and delish.  They carry Phil and Sebastian’s coffee which would make it the best coffee on campus. Nice healthy and affordable options at the UofC, for a change.

It’s sponsored by the Canadian Sport Centre Calgary, whose dietians and chefs design the menu. Great idea!

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This week's CSA delivery

I decided to try something new this summer.  I signed up for a CSA (community supported agriculture) share.  This week I got: flowers, sorrel, mixed salad greens, swiss chard, potatoes, green onions and garlic scapes. Had a nice salad for dinner.

 

Veggies!