I was going to write about our awesome interfaith voter registration drive, but last night, we had one of my most favorite Moishe House events ever, so I feel the need to reflect on that. Thanks to the genius of Moishe House leader Aliza Wasserman, we held an Iron Chef/Top Chef competition where the secret ingredient was our community supported agriculture farm shares. We had 5 teams of 4-6 each, plus judges, plus some other audience members, and each team had 3 hours to cook up a storm using their farm shares and a limited few other ingredients.
The results were, as Mary Poppins would say, supercalifragilisticexpialidotius. Ben's team made a killer quiche and homegrown potato salad, the winning team made this incredible beet and feta chifonade (I didn't even know what I chifonade was), sweet tomato ices, and fried zuchinni towers with fresh pesto and baba ganouj, my team made cucumber/watermelon/mint/basil/yogurt soup and zuchini stuffed with homemade pesto'ed rice + roasted nuts and tomatoes. Another team made summer rolls with peanut sauce, corn waffles, and a gay pride root veggie bake. Still another team made homemade pasta with homemade pesto, among other things. I'm getting hungry just thinking how amazing it was.
And the great thing was, it was all locally grown, mostly organic food. It made me really excited to support local agriculture and local farmers, and I know others felt the same. We recently got a $3000 grant from the CJP - our Jewish Federation to do more programs about food justice, sustainable agriculture, and Judaism (especially around Tubishvat), and with this event under our belt, there is lots of momentum for more work around healthy food and sustainability. Yay!
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