Have not done well in keeping up with this blog but have to say that the thought of it has at least made me think about my ethical score each day.
Anyway the tilapia was lovely and cooked it simply in some garlic, butter, olive oil and lemon in a frying pan and some organic rice to eat with it.
That brings me to how I am trying to food shop. I was told a way to approach ethical food shopping by using my LOAF. That means buying . . .
Local
Organic
Animal Friendly
Fairtrade
as far as possible.
It was a good week as far as that went. I adapted a recipe I had saved from The Guardian Saturday magazine from Yotam Ottolenghi.
It is a mixture of fried onions (local), cooked green lentils (organic), basmati rice (organic) all cooked together with cumin & coriander seed, cinnamon, turmeric and sugar (Fairtrade). Served with a cucumber and yoghurt salad and a glass of rose wine. It all went down very well. Here's a picture of the finished dish.
The leftover lentils went into Thai spiced lentil rissoles which worked well and as we like vegetarian food it felt better eating more sustainable ingredients and using left-overs!
Well that's it for now.
Ethical shopping in next blog when I share news of my favourite shop with you.
This is my first blog ever and I am going to keep a record of my year and my attempts to live as ethically as possible. Look at my About Me section to see what I hope to do. I am not telling you what you should do, I just want to blog about my life and the ethical decisions I make. As you will see, if you follow, I really enjoy shopping and food so a lot will be about that part of my days! It will be good to have your comments and hear your views.
This week has been good as I was at a Shropshire Fairtrade Coalition meeting where we were told that the Shrewsbury is well on the way to becoming a FT town. Then i was at a school who are getting really enthused about becoming a Fairtrade School. It's great to see how keen these primary age children are and how much they know of the issues involved.
Off now to cook some Tilapia fish which has been sustainably farmed. Let you know how it tasted in the next blog.
Thanks for reading this and hope you will return. I hope to blog a couple of times a week.
