Food Blogs

Her is a link to a food blog that is really cool. People debate about the food and drinks on the blog and post all kinds of recipes. If you scroll down a little you will see one of my favorites. It is the latte that is "too pretty to drink". I thought it was really cool how they did that to the latte.


Here is another link to Another food blog. This is the blog Charlotte showed us, but I thought it was really cool too. It was funny and I like that for each step there was a picture. Also here is a recipe from her blog that used a fresh herb that we grew...basil. Maybe I will make this pizza, it looks pretty good.

Top 3 Recipes

1. Guacamole

Ingredients
3 Haas avocados, halved, seeded and peeled
1 lime, juiced
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon cayenne
1/2 medium onion, diced
2 Roma tomatoes, seeded and diced
1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
1 clove garlic, minced
Directions
In a large bowl place the scooped avocado pulp and lime juice, toss to coat. Drain, and reserve the lime juice, after all of the avocados have been coated. Using a potato masher add the salt, cumin, and cayenne and mash. Then, fold in the onions, tomatoes, cilantro, and garlic. Add 1 tablespoon of the reserved lime juice. Let sit at room temperature for 1 hour and then serve.

2. Cilantro Lime Salsa Fresca

Ingredients:
3 large tomatoes or 5-6 plum tomatoes, diced small1 med. white onion
, diced small1 jalapeno or other hot pepper, diced (you decide if you want to seed it or not) juice of 2 limes, or one lemon and one lime1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
salt to taste
Directions:
Combine everything in a bowl. Cover and refrigerate a couple of hours or overnight before serving.

3. ARCADIAN EIGHT BEAN CHILI

Ingredients:

1/4 lb each of the following dried beans: kidney, white, pink, black, red, pinto, cranberry, and navy

1 lb bacon

5 large onions, peeled and chopped

2/3 cup minced garlic

1/4 cup toasted coriander seeds, ground

1/4 cup ground cinnamon

1/4 cup paprika

1/4 cup cayenne pepper, or to taste for the timid of tongue

1/2 cup ground dried Poblano chili peppers

108 oz (#10 can) Italian plum tomatoes, with juice

12 oz beer

5 lb lean ground beefsalt to taste

Instructions:

In a large pot, soak the beans together overnight in water to cover. Drain and add fresh water to cover. Cook at a simmer for 1 1/2 hours oruntil beans are just tender. While the beans are simmering, heat a large skillet. Mince the baconand cook it until it begins to crisp. Add the onions and garlic andcook over medium heat for 5 minutes. Add all the spices and the groundPoblanos and cook another 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes with their juiceand the beer. Simmer for half an hour. In another pan, cook the beef until the pink color disappears. Drainand add it to tomatoe mixture. When the beans are fully cooked, drain them, reserving the liquid, andadd the beans to the meat/tomato mixture. Salt to taste and let themixture simmer for about 1 hour. If it is too dry, add some of the beanliquid.

Sustainability Visit

1. What is your name and your role here at the (farmers market, CSA, community garden)?
Tom and I am a shopper and a seller.

2. Why do you choose to shop here/garden here/support this CSA?
To support locally and because I know the people here and its a very social environment. Also because its safe and affordable.

3. When did you first start coming here?
1 month ago, but I have been supporting farmers markets since the 80's....I'm a hippie

4. Do you garden at home? Why or why not?
Yes, because it supports the locals and for all the reasons in #2.

5. How did you find out about this place?
I am a farmer and you hear about these things when you're a farmer

6. What would be your advice to get others to do what you do?

I think it's pretty clear to most people that there are a lot of benefits to shopping here but that's what I would tell them...all the benefits of it.

What struck you about the location you visited? Was it what you expected or very different?

What struck me about the farmers market was that it was outside. I feel stupid for thinking it now, but when I first heard of a farmers market I thought that it would be inside and that there would be animals inside of it and everything, kind of like a petting zoo or something. Then when I got there it was just a long line of tents doing through what looked like a giant parking lot. So, obviously, when I saw the real thing it was not anywhere close to what i had expected.

Do you think you will start going to a farmers market more often?

I think that I will start to go there more often then I do now, but I probably will not go there all the time and I will still shop at a regular store a lot. But for some things I will probably go to a farmers market to get them.

How do these locations fit into our essential questions of "Why don't people live more sustainably?" and "How can I convince them to do so?"

The farmers market and the sustainability visits fit into our essential questions because supporting a farmers market is one way of living sustainably and also by getting the interviews from people who support them regularly we see why they do this and we can pass that on to others to encourage them to use farmers markets also.

Ecological Intelligence

-Explain what ecological intelligence is.


Ecological intelligence is knowing and understanding the consequences we make to the environment every time we buy something that is supposedly "green" or will reduce our carbon footprint. It means that we need to know that just because it says that its made from organic material or that its made from recycled material or something like that it doesn't mean that it is better for the environment than something that isn't.






-How does this article connect to our project’s Essential Questions?


This article connects to our essential questions for the L.U.L.S. project because it is not only talking about living sustainably, but it is also talking about awareness of living sustainably. The article is making sure that we are not thinking that we are living sustainably and actually are not. It is educating us on how to do it more effectively and what to watch out for while trying to live more sustainably.





-How high is your ecological intelligence? Give an example of ecological intelligence in your life.


My ecological intelligence is not very high, it's actually probably, on a scale of one to 100, at about 15 or so. I don't really know about Green stuff and all that. I don't really go out of my way to get stuff like that and I don't even really know if the stuff that I buy is green or organic or anything. I assume that it isn't because I think it would be in big green letters all over the product if it was. One example of ecological intelligence in my life is something my crazy super go green aunt got me one time. It is a box with paper to write on inside and it is all made out of...you'll never guess...elephant poop. You can also give it to the zoo or something like that when you are done using it and they use it for something...I'm not sure what it just says to give it to them.

ads we like

http://ben.ezymail.com/profileimages/Backup_of_croc_add.jpg This is an ad that my group thought was really cool because it was funny and, like ours, there was writing underneath it explaining what it was for and how it helped and stuff. We thought we could try to make ours funny like that one.

http://interactive.usc.edu/members/tfullerton/nycads1.jpg This is another ad that my group liked because it had something to do with ours and we thought it was a creative way to show it because it was on a billboard and wasn't just a piece of paper.

Data Analysis

Click here to see the results to our survey on survey monkey.
As you can see the majority of people do garden but they garden something other than fruits and vegetables. Also most of the people who do garden, do it because they think that it is fun, not to save the enviroment. What really struck me about this data was that more people garden than don't garden. I really thought that it was going to be the other way around. I think that some people may have lied about that one though because on the next question, "Why do you garden" the overwhelming majority was "I dont garden". So it really didn't make much sense to me that in the frst question more people gardened, but in the second quesion more people didn't garden.


Before we actually took the survey we made a guess as to what the outcome would be and I guessed that the majority would say that they didn' garden, so obviously, unless they lied like I said before, I was wrong.

I think that my group should try to encouragepeople to garden. I think we should just el tham that all the good things about it and how grat it is. I think this would work because the people wo toook the survey seemed to think that gardening was a good idea, but there is just one thing that is stopping them from actually doing. Also they just need encouragment because 80 percent of the people already think that there is a possibility for them to garden, and all they need is that little push.

Take a survey!!

Click here to take our survey. Please take it, it will help our group project.