This salad is what we're eating local today.
It has peppers, tomatoes, and lettuce from the Austin Farmer's Market. Normally, lettuce and tomatoes are not something you can eat on a locally-grown salad in Texas. Greens grow well here in the winter and spring, and tomatoes are a summer food. But one farmer had lettuce, and when we asked him how he does it, he said "It's my wife's secret!" However she does it, we were glad to have local summer lettuce.
The blue plate has delicious locally-made "wheat roast" with smoke-dried tomatoes. The wheat roast (aka wheat gluten, or in Indonesia, seytan) is the protein portion of wheat baked into a bread-like loaf with the consistency of meat. The smoke-dried tomatoes are a speciality of Boggy Creek Farm, and are a way of enhancing and preserving the flavor of summer tomatoes year-round. All together, it is high in protein, and with the smoky flavor of the smoke-drieds, it is a delicious part of the meal.
It has peppers, tomatoes, and lettuce from the Austin Farmer's Market. Normally, lettuce and tomatoes are not something you can eat on a locally-grown salad in Texas. Greens grow well here in the winter and spring, and tomatoes are a summer food. But one farmer had lettuce, and when we asked him how he does it, he said "It's my wife's secret!" However she does it, we were glad to have local summer lettuce.
The blue plate has delicious locally-made "wheat roast" with smoke-dried tomatoes. The wheat roast (aka wheat gluten, or in Indonesia, seytan) is the protein portion of wheat baked into a bread-like loaf with the consistency of meat. The smoke-dried tomatoes are a speciality of Boggy Creek Farm, and are a way of enhancing and preserving the flavor of summer tomatoes year-round. All together, it is high in protein, and with the smoky flavor of the smoke-drieds, it is a delicious part of the meal.
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