Tuesday, August 18, 2009

A breath of fresh air-Dining at Jacksons

I enjoy dining at the Jacksons
The ambience,food,friendly waiters, perfect... well not just that, I also find these people to be responsible.
I am a person who is conscious about not being wasteful,especially when eating out, like for eg I don't like how extra ketup or mayo is served in plastic use and throw containers and why do waiters assume anyone who drinks water needs a straw? It is very easy for a person who has grown up outside of the US to notice these things.
I infact avoid takeouts for the sole reason they create so much garbage for disposal.

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At Jacksons I can eat without any of these bugging my mind. They give straws only only when one asks. They serve butter with their great tasting bread and ketchup in little steel cups and finally what really shows their conscious style is:no plastic bags served up with your togo boxes!
These little things are definitely great pluses according to me and it goes to show you don't really have to be lavish to create a nice dining experience.

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Today's Harvest



Mint, Tomato and green chilly from the "Backyard Farm".

The tomato plants, which are my source of primary interest mainly because of their consistent and rapid turnover, have been yielding roughly 2 ripe tomatoes(about the size of a golf ball) a day. This is clearly not enough to sustain the hearth which deals on a regular basis with tomato intensive recipes like Rasam. So I end up buying tomatoes from the market which dampens the joy and satisfaction of home-gardening. It's a stark reminder of how much goes into growing the food consumed in every single meal.

I recently saw an episode on the food channel where they mentioned that eating fried grasshoppers and other crustacean insects required about 1/1000th the amount of water as compared to growing veggies. That really threw the spanner in the works for I have always prided myself on being a sort of minimalist by virtue of my vegetarianism. Can I preach the veg-life to meat eaters if I myself am averse to the even better alternative?