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Fresh Foods
Jul. 28th, 2008 10:01 pmWe were, just moments ago, eating chorizo quesadillas.
Mostly, we used leftover ingredients from Saturday's lunch, when we - surprise - had chorizo quesadillas.
There was something Even BettererTM this time around.
We used some fresh purple basil that I picked up today from the CSA.
Taste. Explosion.
And I got to thinking. You go out to eat at a restaurant and you pay them gobs of money, and they serve you frozen stuff. Dried stuff.
It doesn't take much effort to get some herbs growing.
Hell, a restaurant could get several of these going, and it's even easier for them. Or, even better, a commercial version that achieves the same thing on the scale they need.
An order comes in, chop, snip, there's the herbs. Right there. Fresh.
Why pay for stale food?
~ ~ ~
This is why I love Flow. Locally grown food, fresh. It really makes a difference.
And if you're paying $20 a person - or even if it's just $10 a person, which can include some of the more expensive fast food places these days or even the cheap ones, for those with big appetites - there's no reason you should be paying to have overly processed stuff shipped from across the country.
Leave that for the rare delicacies that only grow in one place. If you can grow it in your neighborhood, your restaurants should be growing it in your neighborhood or buying it from someone who does.
Anything else, might as well go with frozen burgers (which most of the places around here serve) and Gortons fish (which most of the places around here serve).
Mostly, we used leftover ingredients from Saturday's lunch, when we - surprise - had chorizo quesadillas.
There was something Even BettererTM this time around.
We used some fresh purple basil that I picked up today from the CSA.
Taste. Explosion.
And I got to thinking. You go out to eat at a restaurant and you pay them gobs of money, and they serve you frozen stuff. Dried stuff.
It doesn't take much effort to get some herbs growing.
Hell, a restaurant could get several of these going, and it's even easier for them. Or, even better, a commercial version that achieves the same thing on the scale they need.
An order comes in, chop, snip, there's the herbs. Right there. Fresh.
Why pay for stale food?
~ ~ ~
This is why I love Flow. Locally grown food, fresh. It really makes a difference.
And if you're paying $20 a person - or even if it's just $10 a person, which can include some of the more expensive fast food places these days or even the cheap ones, for those with big appetites - there's no reason you should be paying to have overly processed stuff shipped from across the country.
Leave that for the rare delicacies that only grow in one place. If you can grow it in your neighborhood, your restaurants should be growing it in your neighborhood or buying it from someone who does.
Anything else, might as well go with frozen burgers (which most of the places around here serve) and Gortons fish (which most of the places around here serve).
