Cooking Ideas For The Spring Break!

In need of some recipe ideas? Check out Marie-Christine and Stephanie's weekly column in the McGill Daily Mind & Body section for simply tasty recipes. January/February recipes included Astro Quinoa salad, Mediterranean hummus, Macaroni and broccoli, Anytime asparagus soup, Caponatta soup and Consommé à la madrilène.

Bon Appétit!

This Week's Basket , Spring Break and Cooking Workshop

Organic Campus has been listening to (or rather reading) your local winter vegetables suggestions and we made a few changes for this week's local organic basket.

For this week expect to find:

-winter squash
-cabbage (most likely divided)
-potatoes
-onions
-jerusalem artichokes
-apples

Continue sharing with us your suggestions, either verbally (we love human contact!), in our suggestion box at the counter, using the comments on this blog or emailing us at organiccampus[a]gmail.com. Allow us to also point out the recipe exchange box that you can find at the counter. Share your recipes, copy some / give some. And talking about recipes...

The promised vegan cooking workshop will be held on Wednesday March 5th at 7pm in the Shatner Building. Meighen and Abbey are preparing a wicked vegan, local and nutritional workshop that will focus on that week's basket. The workshop is absolutely free, courtesy of Organic Campus and Greening McGill, and you'll get to sample all the delicious recipes prepared. Stay tuned for many other activities organized with Greening McGill as they are making local foods one of their main focuses this semester.

Next week will be the well deserved spring break and Organic Campus deserves it just as much as you do! Therefore, there will be no delivery next Tuesday February 26th. All orders taken tomorrow will be delivered after the break, on Tuesday March 4th.

Have a fabulous reading week!

Organic Campus

Campus Crops, Upcoming Cooking Workshop and Conference

After the long winter months filled with almost exclusively root vegetables, the sunlight will eventually come back and it'll be time for fruits and vegetables to grow again in Quebec. And what's more local than our own backyard? Campus Crops, a new student group seeking to grow some of our own food on McGill Campus, will be using the backyard of the McGill School of Environment for a garden this spring, summer and fall. This week at the Organic Corner, there is a poster lying around with a blank picture of the garden plot, for people to draw, write or cut-and-paste in and to tell us what kinds of things they'd like to see in the garden. We are recommending fruits and vegetables, but you can draw anything you want. There's a set of markers, some paper, scissors etc. as well. Be creative!

You're in need of new ideas for cooking all the yummy vegetables you bring back every week from Organic Campus? Come participate to a free fun-filled and instructive vegan cooking workshop with our lovely volunteer Meighen! The cooking workshop is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday February 20. Look for the poster and sign up sheet in the Organic Corner next Tuesday!

Still need a little boost to convince yourself to start eating healthy and organic? Association Manger Santé Bio organizes a conference on February 13th ($5 for students), more details on their website a www.mangersantebio.org .

In your $10 basket this week!

After a short interruption, the OC is back with its weekly delivery of entirely local vegetables. And good news: from now on, we'll try to let you know a week ahead what will be in the basket so that you can plan accordingly, since the vegetables don't vary much in winter! For this week and next week, the basket will consist of:

-carrots
-onions
-potatoes
-Jerusalem artichokes
-apples
-beets

Organic Campus wishes you a fabulous organic Tuesday!