Boston Organics

Small box, one third fruit.

• two large heads of garlic
  
• a bunch of broccoli
  
• two medium zucchini
  
• a bunch of collard greens
  
• three medium-small yellow onions
  
• eight ounces of white mushrooms
  
• one and a half pounds of red-skinned fingerling potatoes
  
• a bag (a third of a pound?) of sugar snap peas
  
• three plums
  
• two oranges
  
• one grapefruit

Still left from last week's box: broccoli, one sweet potato, and a plum.

First thoughts: some kind of soup with collards, sweet potatoes, beans, garlic and some hot sauce; roasted potatoes and zucchini (or just roasted zucchini with potato salad?); some kind of broccoli-mushroom stir fry (I'd've added the snap peas if they hadn't just become snackage.).

Reminder to self: bring the compostables in to the recycle center. Hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-7:30. (And on Shabbat from 9 to 4. Not that I'd be bringing stuff over then.)

eta, 1700 In poking around the cupboards to see what would be good to use up, I rediscovered a package of fermented black beans, bought because, well, they were there and hechshered. Cool, right? But I've never really figured out what to do with them. If you use them, how?
(Excavations also uncovered a sorely out-of-date squeeze bottle of kosher for Passover wasabi sauce. I'm willing to push shelf life a little, but four years is well past the boundary, in territory that shall remain unexplored.)

Renewal, and a ride

I went to Hebrew College tonight to see Renewal, a documentary about USian faith communities working to protect or restore the environment. There's a wide range of topics, ranging from Appalachian Evangelicals fighting mountaintop removal (strip mining that literally takes the top off the mountains; it's incredibly ugly, as well as disturbing the ecosystem), churches going greener (solar panels, rethinking trash, etc), Muslims in Chicago finding sources for local organic (and free range) halal meat, and more. There are eight profiles, and they're all interesting. I noticed that the Jewish profile was of the retreat in CT where Hazon has has its Hannukah gatherings, where kids learn about the environment, rather than one community more specifically. I wonder whether this was their best example, or they didn't find Jewish communities getting involved to the same extent (yet?). Though there were Jews in the last segment, about an interfaith environmental movement. (I had to laugh: a woman said that it brought people together, Jews sitting next to Muslims.... Orthodox Jews sitting next to Reform Jews. Rueful laughter, yes, around the entire room.)

Pico review: worth seeing, and has potential for use in non-public-school settings (the profiles can be shown separately).

It seemed appropriate to get myself there without a car; late this afternoon I decided to bike. ( It was a slightly more adventurous ride than I'd hoped for. )