Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL

It is Spring already in Florida ...HEYYYYY!

The hurricane season,the cold fronts coming from Canada,the draught,the floods,the economic crunch and all the other blablabla depressing talk:Forget about it!

Let us switch to purging and Spring inner- house cleaning  with some  local recipes to fill in a new resolution promise."LOSE that extra weight BABY,Lighten up!"

I am going to share with you a REJEUVINATING story  to tell at your next food DETOXIFICATION station chat chat chat!.

No Romaine lettuce,spinach,jalopeno or peanut butter ingredients for sure..you know why!ehem ehem!!!

IT is called  TABOO- LEE.There is nothing ugly  in it except its prefix sounds like taboo..and  the suffix is prounounced as in  "LIE" .The word comes from the PHOENECIAN heritage cuisine,  now  for real known as Lebanese cuisine.No politics or cussing ,please!

The mother word  derives from  :TAWABLE,  which means "SPICES" and  rare as they were then they were found and BLENDED together in a formula of seven spices one of them is cumin.. another... black pepper, another: I am not going to tell you all my secrets! Make  up your own!

Here is one more KEY ingredient :MEDITERRANEAN SEA SALT..well get those spices together mixed up and put all in a mortar and pound ,mix with1/2 bunch of Organic fresh green scalion.Set aside .

Move to those Organic freshly harvested garden Parsley  get as many bunches as one bunch per two family members participating in this cleansing food" festivity".MInce the parsley .Set aside.

Pick those garden fresh Roma Tomato or even better fleshy ugly or "local harvest catalog" Heirloom tomato.Chop chop chop.Set aside.

Sacrifice couple of  locally grown cucumbers into dices.Set aside.

Meet your garden mint.Pluck a bunch.Mince it up.Set aside.

Fetch a dandelion weed in your backyard .Pick the green leaves.cut.

Throw away the dead bulgar and replace with LIVING QUINOA SPROUTS.

Assemble all of the above in a deep bottom bowl.Baptize with Extra virgin alive oil and Florida or California fresh squeezed lemon.Hand bless/mix all

Put in a refrigerator for five or ten minutes.Set on the table.Sit down at the table.ATTACK.

Later on  you will feel cool and RELAXED. Consider this as a more palatable laxative per se , not to say a non-prescription spring cleanser!

Bon Appetite!

Tony Florida :) @ localharvest.org/farms/M20618