Today's Sustainable Feast in the Garden of Eden
We made a delicious feast for our full time volunteers today on our indoor wood burning stove rather than on the rocket stoves of our sustainable outdoor kitchen. We stayed nice and toasty, had a fantastic meal, AND heated water for showers for super sustainable efficiency. As usual, there was more than enough food for everyone, and we are happy to share our abundance with you! ### Today we made a Mexican fiesta feast!
We made a fantastic spread with salad, spicy meat and veggie fillings, rice, beans, garnishes, condiments, and a selection of wraps for making tacos, burritos, or quesadillas!
Mexican spreads like these are awesome for a crowd, because each person can mix exactly as much of each element they like to make a completely unique dinner to their particular tastes and preferences!
We started with a delicious garden salad. We laid a bed of greens and topped it with juicy tomatoes, cabbage, peppers, sliced mushrooms, and nutritional yeast. This was excellent on its own, as a base for taco salad, or as a garnish in our burritos!
Sliced peppers, cheese, onions, and a variety of salsas are classic toppings for many Tex-Mex dishes.
We made a bowl of brown rice flavored with lime and onion, and served it alongside flavorful black beans prepared with onions, tomatoes, garlic, chili powder, and cumin. Rice and beans are a classic pairing across many cultures. It is said that eating these two together provides the body with all the amino acids it needs to build complete proteins.
For wraps, we offered whole wheat and corn tortillas as well as crunchy cabbage leaves! Tortillas are tasty flatbreads that serve as the traditional wraps for burritos and soft tacos, but sometimes we like to mix it up with a low carb option like cabbage leaves. You get a little extra texture, flavor, and higher nutritional content!
We offered 3 different delicious salsas: a classic red tomato sauce with lots of garlic, cilantro and lime juice, a spicy green chile salsa, and a deep smokey roasted tomatillo salsa! A spoonful of any or all of these yummy salsas can change the whole flavor profile of anything it is sprinkled on.
For our meat eaters, we offered seasoned chicken breast strips cooked in coconut oil with cumin, chili powder, garlic, oregano, and salt.
We offered shredded cheese and fermented, pickled relish as extra toppings too. The relish is sour, a bit spicy, and slightly crunchy slices of radish, carrots, onions, and cabbage.
We made a bowl of seasoned, sautéed veggies too with mushrooms, onions, peppers, and garlic in tomatoes and spices.
With all these options, everyone could build their perfect plate!
This one has a tiny taco salad topped with chicken, a veggie taco with salsa and sour cream in a corn tortilla, a cabbage wrap, black beans on rice, and a bit of veggie relish too.
Because the wood burning stove is nice and hot, we could easily make quesadillas by layering cheese, meat, and or veggies on a toasty tortilla!
Ahhhh it was another delicious, sustainable, nutritious feast with more than enough food for everyone!
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We do all of our cooking over fire, using wood that was otherwise destined to end up in a landfill! This is our indoor wood burning stove in action - it cooks our food, warms our communal space, and heats water for hot showers all at the same time!
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Photos are original to our epic feast and highlight just a taste of the thousands upon thousands of free meals we share every single year.
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We do indeed have epic feasts--and Taco Tuesdays are always a favorite!!!
Life at the GOE is epic indeed!
I ❤️taco Tuesday !!
We ❤️ YOU!!!!!!
These photos are so good you can actually taste the awesomeness of the food by just looking at them!
Juicy photography :P
Delicious nutritious and sustainable!
Amazing reality!
Wonderful @gardenofedenn, everything looks really appetizing, I love how you see the dish at the end, very good pictures and even better prescribe the congratulations. regards
Thank you @alejo1996~
I am feeling hungry Thanks for sharing a healthy food health is wealth and and health come from a healthy food
God bless you I always wait for you food and recipie keep sharing
Blessings to you~*~
Thank you!
These are the food for burden soul. to help people in need. I appreciate what you've done to broader community in need. bring happiness to those in need while there is no reason to be happy!
Thank you for your support @bagindooo!
what should be good, to gather all the volunteers to a family meal, I am very pleased, that there are people like you who care about the people who need their help, besides encouraging the volunteer, to continue doing this beautiful work as is to help our neighbor. As always excellent food, black beans are called caraotas here and I prepare them just like you do at home. congratulations once more @ gardenofeden
Thank you for seeing our mission @perlanacarada! Grateful for your support 🙏🏽
Quesadillas are some of my favorites! Your spread looks amazing, as always, but especially good tonight. I imagine everyone left satisfied. :)
We're big quesadilla fans too! So easy to throw on the wood burning stove and fill with anything we have on hand. Yes yes, it was indeed a very satisfying meal!
After all thet delisoius food pictures... I go right now for some healty food... Continue your lovely days in Texas and garden of Eden... Paradise! 💙
We are blessed! <3
Indeed 🎯 🙏