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Pumpkins: Not Just For Pie Any More!
Somebody ought to tell this to the manager of our local Loblaws. They no longer carry canned pumpkin outside of the holiday season because "there's so many pumpkin pie filling varieties that there's no point in just stocking the pure stuff any more."
I tried not to make a face or gaggy-noise, despite having tasted a number of canned pie filling recipes, because that's not polite, but I did point out that pie filling doesn't make good pumpkin soup. The guy looked at me like I was talking a foreign language. "Pumpkin... soup?"
This is the same store that no longer has butchers. I'm waiting for the day when they don't bother carrying unchocolated milk, or strawberries without cream and sugar included.
Also, the boys were watching Discovery yesterday and saw a rather horrific documentary about sharks, and the world shark fin market. We did a little online research and found that the go-to place in Ottawa for Shark Fin Soup is a restaurant within walking distance of our house. We're going to call on Monday and see if they carry the real thing or a substitute.
You know, I don't consider myself particularly green when it comes to food-related stuff. Possibly because I have friends who have their own chickens and cow, and consider home made bread with white flour a decadent treat. But I've run across so many food-related issues in the last few months that I'm feeling myself going granola wrt food too. Which is ironic since I actually don't much like the taste of granola.
It's just... you try to eat healthy and be environmentally friendly, but industry doesn't seem to want to let you. Try to buy unpasteurized milk and you have to jump through endless hoops to get it. Try to grow your own chickens and it's even worse - in fact, in Ottawa, you can't own them at all. Try to take your kids to Wal-Mart (not that I would, but still, it's the principle of the thing) and the chips and coke are deliberately prominently placed where kids want to go. Try to make pumpkin pie from scratch and you can't. Try to not use Monsanto's products and... never mind, I'll go on too big a rant if I start talking about this bit.
Hm... maybe I'm still grumpy over giving up Nestle's KitKats. Could it be that simple? Would a KitKat make me not so food-ranty?
Think I'll go watch Ratatouille when we get back home. That's sure to help :)
Somebody ought to tell this to the manager of our local Loblaws. They no longer carry canned pumpkin outside of the holiday season because "there's so many pumpkin pie filling varieties that there's no point in just stocking the pure stuff any more."
I tried not to make a face or gaggy-noise, despite having tasted a number of canned pie filling recipes, because that's not polite, but I did point out that pie filling doesn't make good pumpkin soup. The guy looked at me like I was talking a foreign language. "Pumpkin... soup?"
This is the same store that no longer has butchers. I'm waiting for the day when they don't bother carrying unchocolated milk, or strawberries without cream and sugar included.
Also, the boys were watching Discovery yesterday and saw a rather horrific documentary about sharks, and the world shark fin market. We did a little online research and found that the go-to place in Ottawa for Shark Fin Soup is a restaurant within walking distance of our house. We're going to call on Monday and see if they carry the real thing or a substitute.
You know, I don't consider myself particularly green when it comes to food-related stuff. Possibly because I have friends who have their own chickens and cow, and consider home made bread with white flour a decadent treat. But I've run across so many food-related issues in the last few months that I'm feeling myself going granola wrt food too. Which is ironic since I actually don't much like the taste of granola.
It's just... you try to eat healthy and be environmentally friendly, but industry doesn't seem to want to let you. Try to buy unpasteurized milk and you have to jump through endless hoops to get it. Try to grow your own chickens and it's even worse - in fact, in Ottawa, you can't own them at all. Try to take your kids to Wal-Mart (not that I would, but still, it's the principle of the thing) and the chips and coke are deliberately prominently placed where kids want to go. Try to make pumpkin pie from scratch and you can't. Try to not use Monsanto's products and... never mind, I'll go on too big a rant if I start talking about this bit.
Hm... maybe I'm still grumpy over giving up Nestle's KitKats. Could it be that simple? Would a KitKat make me not so food-ranty?
Think I'll go watch Ratatouille when we get back home. That's sure to help :)
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I buy my pumpkin from Target, are they in Canada? They're similar to Walmart, but MUCH more tolerable.
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Isn't that, like, scary?
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The problem is that pasteurization also kills off a lot of good stuff - good bacteria, certain enzymes, yadda yadda. And some people believe that it's also got various "healing powers." My friend Wanda gives her girls raw milk, and claims that her middle daughter went from sickly & tummy-miserable to perfectly healthy once she started on raw milk. Personally, I have my doubts, but she's read studies that seem to show it has some benefits.
In any case, you can't buy or sell raw milk. It's illegal. So the only way you can get raw milk in Ontario is to own your own cow, or join a cow-cooperative, like Wanda did. She owns something like an eighth of a cow, and the cow is taken care of by a dairy farmer who milks her and puts her raw milk into a container for the families to share. The owner families then take turns picking up and distributing the milk. They know where the cow is, they know the dairy farmer uses safe methods to make sure the cow remains healthy and her milk isn't stored where it might pick up anything nasty.
In many places, it is illegal to even do that much. If you drink milk straight from a cow, you are breaking the law.