food and freedom

hi chickies! i'm going to try to make this one brief... a hungry little biggles knocked a mug of water onto my laptop trying to wake me up for breakfast. it's in the shop hopefully getting repaired. i'm using johnny's desktop and he's got to use it too, so onto the food!

muth family farm organic csa week two: delicious organic blueberries ($3/pint and from another local farm), green onions, savoy cabbage, amaranth, endive, rainbow chard, cilantro, romaine, kale, zukes, cukes, yellow squash, golden squash, and sunburst squash.

aka pattypan squash

with my greens and new $17 salad spinner, we've been making lots of yummy salads. johnny boy had the brilliant idea to use the blueberries in a vinaigrette. a delight for the taste buds and eyes!=)

blissful blueberry vinaigrette

1/4 C + 2 T blueberries
2 T olive oil
2 T apple cider vinegar (i'm sure red wine and balsamic would also taste nice)
1 T agave or equivalent of your favorite sweetener

process in blender until smooth.

the dressing was made with philip's honey mustard dressing in mind. just four easy to remember ingredients. simple is scrumptious in the summer - i want to enhance the flavor of my fresh ingredients, not overpower them!

below is philip's honey mustard dressing with a tsp of irish moss (above, without). the irish moss added creaminess without changing the flavor.

don't own the raw food salad bar yet? win it here!

 

as you may have heard, i am driving to toronto next weekend to meet up with nelly, heathy and a few other  lady bloggers. (yippee!) since i may or may not have a laptop, i am going to pick and announce the winner of the raw food salad bar ebooks before i leave. the deadline for the giveaway is now tuesday, july 6th at midnight. click here to enter if you haven't already!

 

in the spirit of july 4th, i leave you with a picture of our civil flag of peace blowing in the breeze. it denotes our jurisdiction - common law (or natural law/the creator's law) - as opposed to military/admiralty/commercial law - the law which governs us today. the horizontal-striped, gold-fringed flag signifies a country at war. 

the first civil flag came about in 1767 when the "sons of liberty" rebelled against the stamp act by turning the british east india company flag on its side; the vertical stripes representing the people's sovereignty from england. it was the flag of the american revolutionaries.
 
the founding fathers of this country created documents like the declaration of independence and the bill of rights to preserve, in writing, our god-given birthrights, which intended to free the people from oppressive rule. let us all celebrate the true spirit of 1776 this independence day... with liberty and justice for all.=)