So long low fat!

“It is now increasingly recognized that the low-fat campaign has been based on little scientific evidence and may have caused unintended health problems.”

http://grist.org/scary-food/2011-03-04-low-fat-diet-fad/


I'm super happy about this.  I've been saying that animal fats are healthier and healthy for people, but people don't listen, probably because I don't have a fancy science degree.  I should just forward this article, each time someone asks me how I stay slim, because when I tell them, they roll their eyes, or make some joke about lard and continue to get fat.

It's a bit funny that I came across this news today, because so far, I had a bacon and tomato sandwich for breakfast and then one for lunch.  It was one slice of rye per meal, fried on both sides in the bacon grease in my cast iron pan, so the bacon crisped up to perfection, and the grease didn't go to waste, then topped with delicious Ayrshire bacon from a local pig farm and tomatoes and onions from my backyard.  Awesome!

This is such a treat.  I don't eat like this all the time, every day, but since I have the bacon and tomatoes are in season, I'm totally indulging.  One open sandwich per meal is totally healthy and nutritious.  I had   a fresh peach in between breakfast and lunch, which was delicious, so sweet and juicy, as it should be.  I bought a basket of peaches, and some bruised when the basket fell off my seat, when I had to slam on my brakes, so I made peach pie, also delicious, but I will post that later.

Tasty Treats from my Garden

It's been a while since I wrote anything in here.  I have been making edibles, but I've been busy.  This year my garden is in the dumps.  Between the slugs, caterpillars, spiders and various diseases on my flowering plants, my garden kind of sucks, to put it mildly.
I planted eggplants, sweet peas, rhubarb, tomatoes (3 varieties), cucumbers, radishes, hot pepper, rue, chives, onions, colourful beets, colourful and orange carrots.

I have a few things growing in my kitchen, which I try to grow and re-seed all year round, this basil is one of those.  I love basil as much as cilantro, because it smells like summer.  I need to re-seed my cilantro, because I let it get to flowering and seeds, so it's the end of this round.  To keep herbs growing, pinch off tips, to prevent them growing flowering buds.  Once herbs start flowering, that is the end of the foliage.

 Buttercups.  Yellow is my favourite colour, again summer.

 I found this caterpillar, and then one more in my dill, near my sweet peas:

 This is how an onion blooms. I love allium flowers.

 This is a fresh onion chopped up:

 This is the onion before I chopped it up:

My kitchen grown chives.  I do have some growing in my yard as well.  I found out that rabbits don't like allium smells, so I planted chives and green onion, and yellow onions around and in between my other vegetables, and I think it's true.  Compared to last year, the rabbits didn't eat very much this year.

 Here is a sandwich with quark cheese / fromage frais, chives and s&p:

This is fromage frais with honey and fresh Niagara peaches.  I often have cottage cheese with honey and fruit, so this is an alternative.

Radishes from my garden.  I planted these from seed, and they grew all squiggly.  They are supposed to be oblong, but the stems are too wavy.

 I love rye with butter and fresh sliced radishes.  So simple, so delicious.

 Yellow and green zucchini from the Farmers Market:

 Raspberries from my backyard:

 These lilies are a lovely shade of red.  If you notice the leaves, they are all chomped by slugs.

 Snap peas from my yard, so sweet:

 With snap peas, you can eat the pods as well, they're sweet and crunchy, and so juicy:

I hope my other vegetables produce something to harvest.  If they do, I will post more photos.