Guest guest Posted August 14, 2005 Report Share Posted August 14, 2005 Donna there are backyard woks! I guess they allow for more heat, which allows the wok to do better what it should. I've seen one called a sizzler, that you can use as a wok, but it is flat - you can do fajitas and all on it too. They I've seen woks that sit sort of in a tube/pit thing and then I've seen ones like this: http://www.chefscatalog.com/ (5j1wv5aqbzruna55noqms435)/catalog/product.aspx? item=12710 & sourcecode=6w1pf1020 Cool, huh?! Tom - there are not many berry farms left in Puyallup - when I was a kid that was how we earned money for clothes & we wore our purple fingers as a proud badge all September! Bummer huh? People live in Puyallup now?! Off topic...they've redone so much in this whole area - Stadium is being fixed up (the kids are using Mt. Tahoma's old building, that school is all new now and in a diff place), Jason Lee was completely renovated, I think Foss is being redone this year, too - Foss doesn't have the same " openeness " it did back in the late 70's early 80's... ahh, change...progress?? m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 I too did some strawberry picking as a kid. Also raspberries, peas, cukes. Now when I'm up in the Puget Sound area, I'm really taken aback at how high the food prices are there. I've gotten spoiled with the abundance of cheap organic food that is available here. My mom was down from Tacoma once and had a standard salad at one of the popular cafes here, and she couldn't get over how good it was with all the organic stuff in there - an experience she doesn't get up there often enough. Most things now have to come from hundreds of miles unless you got your own garden. Here in Ashland, it all grows fairly close by. This really isn't a topic unrelated to being a vegetarian. I think many vegetarians and vegans have a sense that we have to be stewards of all the good things on this earth, and taking care of good farmland should be up there on our list of priorities. Here, people talk about connecting the urban with the rural, possibly the city government actually buying, owning and maintaining nearby organic farmland and contracting it out to growers who would supply our schools and so on. Give people a taste for good greens, tomatoes and strawberries, and they'll reject those relatively tasteless " keeper " varieties that can endure the long shipping routes, but which provide less nutrition... Yes, though I don't get up there often enough, I do realize Tacoma is changing lots. In some ways, though, it's still the same. On a recent listing of 237 cities on a scale of liberal to conservative, Tacoma is near the middle at 96 going from the most liberal to the most conservative. (http://votingresearch.org) Tacoma has always been one of most average places in America. Want to know how the nation feels on a certain topic or will respond to a new product? Save some money and try it out on Tacoma. Tacoma is fairly unique in this way, so it's interesting to watch Tacoma go through its changes and reflect on what this means about changes in the US. Foss was a very unique experiment in the beginning. That openness really opened up some people in very good ways. I feel lucky to have been there at the right time. Though I had trouble getting enough food in the cafeteria sometimes as a vegetarian, the cooks ended up very supportive. (This was September 1973 to June 1975, by the way.) My idealism further flowered there in ways it may not have if I had continued at Stadium.... , " melissa_hopp " <hoppmel@c...> wrote: > Tom - there are not many berry farms left in Puyallup - when I was a kid that was how we earned money for clothes & we wore our purple > fingers as a proud badge all September! Bummer huh? People live in Puyallup now?! > > Off topic...they've redone so much in this whole area - Stadium is > being fixed up (the kids are using Mt. Tahoma's old building, that > school is all new now and in a diff place), Jason Lee was completely > renovated, I think Foss is being redone this year, too - Foss > doesn't have the same " openeness " it did back in the late 70's early > 80's... > > ahh, change...progress?? > > m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 I think > many vegetarians and vegans have a sense that we have to be stewards > of all the good things on this earth, and taking care of good > farmland > should be up there on our list of priorities. That is a definite...and I'm pretty sure people here (this group) feel this way. I buy most of my produce at produce stands & in the summer at the numerous farmers market & the kids are aware that some fruits we can't buy sometimes...if we are going to have peaches in January, we get the jarred kind & dried berries are a winter treat. They love summer cuz they can go nuts choosing fruits galore - I read labels and do my best to buy stuff grown within a state or two...closer obviously being better, locally grown is available in summer. I also try to buy organic...if feasible. Banana's are kind of an exception to the rule...oh well...buy them all year & I think they come from Chili??!! Read something recently about the type of banana we have now may be wiped out by some disease & they are trying to develop a new kind... Pineapple too, I cop out and buy canned, I always have cans available & toss them into many things...Donna, somewhere I have a pineapple " chicken " recipe...I use the veat, will look it up...later... m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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