It is a grey but happy day in the Garden of Eden, and we are giving thanks for more than enough of everything in this abundant life of freedom!
We made a delicious feast for our full time volunteers and special guest on our indoor wood burning stove rather than on the rocket stoves of our sustainable outdoor kitchen. We stayed nice and toasty, had a fantastic meal, AND heated water for showers for super sustainable efficiency. As usual, there was more than enough food for everyone, and we are happy to share our abundance with you!
We made a wonderful vegetarian spread with a gorgeous salad, crispy falafel, purple Thai sticky rice, hearty lentils, and sautéed veggies to share with a special Steemian visitor to the Garden of Eden!
We started our lovely dinner with our daily salad of bright, raw veggies & fruits! We laid a bed of curly dark green kale and topped it with shredded carrots, red and green onions, black beans, sliced strawberries and oranges, feta cheese crumbles, and a sprinkle of sprouted sunflower seeds.
We made crispy round falafel for our meal's main dish. These are made from ground chickpeas mixed with herbs, spices, and garlic, and fried until hot and crunchy. They are excellent just like this!
But we're fancy, so we sprinkled them with a bit of crumbled feta cheese and green onions too!
Falafel are great alone, on salad, or in sandwiches on pita bread! We offered bite sized naan with our meal, and we sprinkled the wee flat breads with parmesan cheese, olive oil, and garlic for extra flavor. To garnish, we set out a dish of green and white onions. We served a delicious creamy tahini yogurt sauce on the side too! This makes an excellent drizzle or dip for the falafel rounds.
We made a delicious side dish of sautéed cabbage, onions, garlic, and mushrooms, and garnished it with bright slices of red and yellow bell pepper for a pretty pop of color and flavor!
We kept the falafel and veggies warm on our wood burning stove while the rest of our dishes finished cooking. Instead of having a knob to adjust the temperature on our stove top, we take care to burn a fire with high enough heat. It takes consideration and practice to know what kind of wood, how much, and what size of it is needed to produce a great cooking fire! We are skilled at using and controlling fire for the purpose at hand because we work with it every single day.
For something that we want to keep warm over "low" heat, we set a brick directly on the stove top then set the dish or pot on top of the brick. This is how we create "burners" with different temperatures on the wood burning stove!
Our day's guest of honor came from across the country to visit us, and we treated him to a fantastic feast. It was beautiful and plentiful, and of course super sustainable!
For another side dish, we made a pot of purple Thai sticky rice and sprinkled it liberally with nutritional yeast and sesame seeds for extra flavor! Nutritional yeast adds lots of B vitamins, protein, and yummy flavor. It is a staple especially for our vegetarians because a sprinkle contains so much nutrition!
For another dish, we made delicious lentils! These are another great vegetarian/vegan dish. Lentils cook faster than beans but have similar taste and texture. They are full of fiber, protein, iron, zinc, and more B vitamins, which are especially important for vegetarians and vegans because animal products are one of the greatest sources of B vitamins but obviously vegetarians and vegans avoid animal products to some extent. We made these with tomatoes, onions, garlic, herbs, and spices.
Do you recognize our special Steem friend guest??
That's right, it's @virtualgrowth!! He FINALLY came to visit the Garden of Eden, and we made sure to feed, feed, feed, feed, feed him! Here he is with our chef du jour, @truelovelives!
Our friend @virtualgrowth specifically came to help us celebrate @quinneaker's Angels & Demons birthday party and invested a few extra days at our ecovillage. We shared many nice meals with our dear Steemian on top of our day's fantastic vegetarian spread! Thanks for visiting @virtualgrowth!
Thanks to all who follow our sustainable feast posts - we'll keep sharing the love~*~
Food is important, and we hope to inspire people to really take time to eat, enjoy it, and share it with someone you love. We also hope to inspire more and more sustainable practices in regards to food!
We do all of our cooking over fire, using wood that was otherwise destined to end up in a landfill! This is our indoor wood burning stove in action - it cooks our food, warms our communal space, and heats water for hot showers all at the same time!
Food is an honored & elemental part of our daily life in community. You can learn more about our unique, intimate, and super sustainable relationship with food here!
Photos are original to our epic feast and highlight just a taste of the thousands upon thousands of free meals we share every single year.
We are happy & grateful to share our abundance - there's more than enough of everything! If you or anyone you know wants or needs food, contact us - we will give you free food, no questions asked. We make this offer every single day, because we are here to help one and all.
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Great time had by all and thank you for everything @gardenofeden, @quinneaker, @saramiller, and @everlove! <3
You're welcome @virtualgrowth! Happy to share with you <3 <3 <3
Wish I coulda been a fly in the wall. Who am I kidding? I woulda been the fly all over those magnificent noms.
This was another really fabulous feast, and it was an extra special event when attended by our first Steemian visit - @virtualgrowth!! I'm grateful he got to stay a few days and enjoy some time here in the vortex with us.
It'll be great when more Steemians also make the trek our way so we can share some of the joys and abundance of the @gardenofeden.
hahahhahaa beautiful photos and what a mysterious guest we had!!!
LOL mysterious indeed!
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Kudos to ur efforts guys 😃
And amazing food !! My mouth got watered 😋
I can see how much you guys must have enjoyed food. I will learn it from u people and try doing the same 😃
Thank you!
Feta and green onions on your falafel? You all are fancy.
That's fun that you had a visitor! I imagine it makes Steemit seem more real when you can see the people you met online in real life.
We actually met this friend at SteemFest 2 in Lisbon Portugal last November, but have been interacting on Steemit for almost the whole time we've been here. Yes it was fun he finally had the opportunity to visit the Garden of Eden!
How interesting is your post today, with that luxury guest, who could enjoy VIP. all those flavors of his succulent cuisine, and witness first hand how this great organization works, exquisite dishes to share on this gray day. I love falafel, with a chickpea sauce, it looks spectacular, what I said of donating serious items for your boutique, like leather gloves for motorized. Always keeping your good heart to help the environment and the people most in need @ gardenofeden
It was a lovely meal shared in love & gratitude!
If you would like to donate material goods, please send us an email @perlanacarada~
Wooow it looks diliciouse and yummy Thanks for sharing this with us
you are always come with new and healthy food for this community
You always introduce new thing
Keep it up good bless you
Blessings~*~
I'm always amazed at how good you are when it comes to healthy food and the unique presentation of it. Your visitor is very lucky to experience delicious feast.
I've learned different style of food combination from your post very unique.
People now are thingking what are the most convenient specially at the kitchen , but with your style lot of things to consider knowing the kind of woods, the size of it , just to have a great cooking fire.
That is impressive...
Thanks a lot.
You're welcome @ttenaj2018! We're happy to inspire and glad you find value in the posts we share.
This is such a great act from you to help people in Africa.It is delicious food .once again surprising us with those wonderful dishes that good is to follow them, excellent post.what a rich banquet, a delight to see those dishes, thanks for sharing with us,
May our actions be far reaching! We are devoted to a better world for ALL beings!
Wow, that looks like a good feast!!!
It was another epic sustainable spread for the books!
what a rich banquet, a delight to see those dishes, thanks for sharing with us, excellent gastronomy and some great photos, in particular I liked the salad with strawberries!
Mmmmm yes that was a crowd favorite dish!
excellent @gardenofeden, everything looks amazing photos, and good food without words, I really liked the final presentation of each dish, each one looks super tasty, but personally I was happy to try the lentils first since I They like me a lot and every time I can eat them I enjoy them a lot. Thanks for sharing with us the photos of their good party, and well I hope the allan passed very well and allan enjoyed a lot. regards
Thank you, we're glad to share the feast with you @alejo1996!
This is so nice! Having Steemian friends visiting you at your home! The food and variety of food on the table are just mind blogging to me! How could you know what to cook for each meal?!
I am beginning to realize that food is really a part of a ritual for strengthening relationships among people!!
Thank you reminding me of this important fact!
Cheers.
You're welcome, we hope to inspire people to deeply connect with one another, and food is a great way to do that. <3
It's great that your post starts with a thanksgiving for what we have.
Hope you guys have had a great time and food looks so delicious as always. Keep it up guys :)
Thank you!
Another Great Meal With Great Friends!
@Gardenofeden is great.
Thank you :)
You're most welcome @gardenofeden. You guys are doing a tremendous job, and we all support you in this regard. Today's recipe is looking great:
vegetarian spread with a gorgeous salad, crispy falafel, purple Thai sticky rice, hearty lentils, and sautéed veggies.
All the best and stay cool!
Thank you!
This is such a great act from you to help people in Africa. Let me tell you sir, such meals are not available even to the relatively wealthier in the third world countries.
We recognize that many in this world are going without every single day. We hope to inspire everyone to embrace more sustainable practices with food and share the abundance that already exists on this planet!
how rich, once again surprising us with those wonderful dishes that good is to follow them, excellent post
Thank you @fher!
This is all so impressive that I wish I could be part of it. Thank you @gardenofeden for sharing.
You're welcome
Healthy foods!
And sustainable !
What a feast!
Amazingly sustainable!
your Sustainable Feast in the Garden of Eden thats really great.this food to see very delicious and yammy.i like your food decoration.every photo very nice of food.i appreciate your food.thank u very much for your good post sharing of food.. @gardenofeden
You're welcome
Wow nice food i like it @gardenofeden
We do too!
It is delicious food ..I like this food thanks deer sharing my favorite food
You're welcome!
this is a great post. i appreciate your post... thanks for sharing.. up vote and resteemit done
Thank you!
Amazing and very interessing food thank you for sharing
resteemed and shared in the steemit
Thank you
Una combinacion perfecta de sabores, todo se ve rico especialmente las fresas.
Que rico~*~
This post has received a 5.18 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @saramiller.
Thank you!
Health food 😍. Resteem
Thank you!
U welcome
mmmmmm.... ñomi....!
yum yum!
a delicious meal. salat leaf and fruit blend of strawberries
Mmmmmmmmm
Good food good life Much better and fantastic post I like your this post
Thank you
Please vote me
Thank you, we are happy to give away the feast!
Oh My God...its very healthy food...Thanks for sharing this with us.
You're welcome
Original dishes. I've never tried some of the ingredients to taste. But it looks great! Especially salad with fruits and lentils are that it is absolutely healthy food.
posting enough to make my jaji hungry, heheheheee
very healthy
What is jaji?
Posts enough to make my stomach hungry, hehehehehe
very healthy.
so I mean. Sorry
a good dish. I really like strawberries and raspberries. good post. I like it.
I like your vegetable salad It's looking awesome. Follow and upvote my
Good
The drool is slipping down my mouth Vah, you make me so hungry while I wait for food.