outside the pantry
I’m a foodie, nutrition nut, and advocate for the underrepresented in agriculture and the culinary world. I’m also a “starving” artist so I get quite creative and resourceful in the kitchen. I love going to the store and finding a grain I’ve never seen before. My hope is to encourage people’s curiosities in the their kitchens and diets, to think “outside the pantry/box”. Food isn’t just nutrition for our bodies, but nutrition for our souls. Oh yes, and I want to have fun!
Thursday, February 21, 2013
REAL olive oil
Apparently real extra virgin olive oil doesn't even make it into the USA, and all that fancy olive oil they sell in the stores, may not even be olive oil at all. Also, to actually get all the health benefits of this liquid gold, it needs to be consumed within 3 months of it's cold pressing. I joined this real extra virgin olive oil club, and this is the first bottle of the real deal that i got. Tastes greener and this particular bottle actually tastes a little bitter to me. I'm looking forward to trying the different bottles of oil as they come
Grapefruit fennel salad and tuna salad with pecan cream
My fridge is full of so many wonderful produce i've acquired from various friends gardens :)
I made a delicious lunch today.
The salad:
Fennel, grapefruit, green onion, pickled red cabbage, garlic powder, and REAL extra virgin olive oil
For the tuna salad, i used pecan cream in place of mayo.
The pecan cream was the creamy foam left over from making my pecan milk after running the milk through my nut milk mesh i use to filter out pulp.
The pecan "pulp" is really creamy! I normally disgard the nut pulp but with pecans, it's different. I could eat it straight, like coconut cream.
So it seemed like a yummy replacer for mayo in my tuna salad, which i also added garlic powder, turmeric and hot sauce.
Yummy!






