Turkey Tracks: June 15, 2011
Sardines For Dinner
Here’s what we had for dinner last night:
There are lots of good reasons to eat sardines. They’re a little fish and are low on the food chain, so they don’t carry the heavy metal levels (mercury!) bigger fish carry. They’re full of calcium! They’re delicious! They’re quick! (Be sure to buy some that are NOT in soy sauce. The ones in flavored sauces, like tomato and mustard, are usually full of stuff you don’t want.) We had some fresh ones in Italy once–just caught and pan fried. They were beyond delicious!
Surrounding the sardines, what you see is local carrot, local feta, local sweet radishes just coming in now, shaved spring onion from the garden, local hydroponic tomato (cut up and sprinkle tomato with salt to release the flavor), and local lettuce from our neighbors Susan and Chris Richmond of Golden Brook Farm. The rest of the ingredients are not local: dried lemon thyme, olive oil, lemon, balsamic vinegar, olives, stuffed grape leaves from a can, avocado, and a cuke. At least the produce came from California–I don’t buy food from outside our borders.
The chocolate is fair trade. One of the best of these is Equal Exchange’s dark chocolate with sea salt and toffee bits.
And, of course, REAL MILK, which is fabulous with the chocolate!
PS: Canned sardines and grape leaves are one of the few things I eat out of a can as most cans are lined with a mixture that releases BPA–a heinous chemical that can seriously harm humans.
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