Wednesday, August 31, 2005

FB What table scraps?


I've always pictured our home with a backyard. In that backyard though aren't just rose bushes, lilies-of-the-valley, carnations or sampaguita vines but also rows of bell peppers, jalapenos, siling labuyo, ginger, carrots, green beans, bitter melon, celery, basil, sage, thyme, lovage, onions, garlic, cucumbers, and other vegetable plants. Somewhere in the back is a nice compost pit where every night one of my kids would join me to add today's "garbage" in the pit. Malou, at the same time, would place into sealable plastic bags the leftover chicken bones, shrimp shells or wine. Those bags would then join the other bags of discarded carrot tops, parmesan rinds, leftover wine in a separate freezer. Of course the entire house is working off the day's solar charge while sending some up to the local power utility. While in bed, my wife and I would be thinking of the soups and stocks we would be making tomorrow night. Read this article to know what you could do with the food that's left behind.

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