For breakfast on Sunday, I made peach pancakes (Thorpes peaches, Thorpes soft white whole wheat flour, homemade maple syrup, various Marco Polo items). I used a teaspoon of cinnamon, as Betty Crocker suggests for peach pancakes, and doubled the amount of maple syrup because this pancake recipe hadn't seemed sweet enough previously. We all agreed they were the best pancakes we'd had all month.
After church, my mom and I brought vegetable donations to the home of a former neighbor. She's started a program she's calling Share the Harvest this year to collect donations from farmers and gardeners in the East Aurora area. She's bringing the food to the Seneca Street Methodist Church, which is located in a neighborhood that's a food desert, to be used to help supplement the diets of the neighborhood's many impoverished residents. I helped her out a bit in August by making some signs for Share the Harvest on the computer, and my mom and I volunteered to pick up Thorpes donation every Saturday and bring it to our former neighbor on Sunday. In addition, we always bring a few things for our garden to donate. This week, we contributed zucchini and eggplant. I would have given tomatoes from my garden as well, but Thorpes had given a big bushel basket.
I went to my friend's house again for a gathering of homeschooled teenagers. Before I left, my dad was kind enough to make some of his amazing salsa for me to bring. I carpooled with a family from Holland, and we talked about gardening and poultry-keeping all the way to Clarence. They're pretty sure that they'll get chickens next year, so I offered to show them my set-up for chicken the next time we carpool.
For dinner at my friend's house, I followed the Rule of Good Manners and partook in all the food, whether local or not. There was lasagna, salad, and peach slices, all of which may have at least been partially local as both of the contributing families belong to CSA's. For desert, there was cake and snicker, decidedly non-local but so delicious. At home, my parents had leftover potatoes and chili.
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