My friend Emari had been wanting for people to trade food for years. It finally happened last week. There was a parade of boxes of plastic containers people had recycIed from their take-out or some inexpensive re-useable containers. Big trade like at Christmas when we trade cookies. E. had to leave quickly since she's getting married in three weeks and has a million things to do. The rest of us took the food swap as an opportunity to catch up, eat fruit, play a board game. We ate fresh food made by my pals for several days. The fridge at N's work failed which meant he needed an alternative lunch source and this was perfect.
Now we're doing it again tomorrow. Each person makes enough for everyone of one dish. Then each person packs the dish as a meal for all participants. So if you have X participants, you bring X gladwares of your dish. Then you swap and go home with X number of meals. We had an easy time finding friends who want: a) not to have to cook for most of the week b) save money c) eat fresh healthy vegetarian meals (only one of us is a vegetarian, but it's good for us!).
Here we have on the foil square: mini sopes with mole sauce, Mexican crema, red pepper and some other combination of black beans, lime chili butter. It just depends on the sopes.
Corn salad from the Barefoot Contessa.
Eggplant with black bean sauce and spring rolls with peanut lime sauce.
Two edamame burgers with cheddar and rolls.
Corn and rice salad (not pictured)
Gnocci with homemade tomato sauce
Indian snacks made with chickpea flour and spinach
We might have another participant next week...sweet. I had a real lunch every day this week and was able to do a lot of work at home because of it. And overcome my fear of canning since the peaches and tomatoes and other goodies don't stop coming at the farmer's market.
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