This Saturday and for the next few weeks Katrina will be providing Sultan Salatin’s Humus (Roasted Red Pepper, Original, & Original with Jalapeño) made from fresh, local peppers. The peppers are from Radell Schrock’s farm, Season’s Bounty, down on route 42. In order to provide the fresh, local ingredients in A Bowl of Good products, it means elbow grease and more expenses. “Buy Local, Buy Fresh” is a great slogan but it flat-out means it is a little harder getting the product you want to you. It would be infinitely easier and cheaper to buy a couple cans from XXXXX, a very LARGE food distributor right outside of town. But that’s not what we want and that’s not what you want.

This is no pity-party because it brings us all great joy to see you, the consumer, happy and healthier and it feels safer knowing that Radell grew the food instead of a mystery-Chinese-factory-farm. We are proud and happy that you visit our stand and buy our products. We just thought it might be nice for you to know a little of what goes into providing you A Bowl of Good products.

Tomorrow we’ll be providing roasted red pepper hummus made from the peppers seen below.

Today at 9:00 on Mt. Clinton Pike, the future Gift & Thrift Business Campus ground-breaking ceremony took place. Katrina was given an opportunity to speak. As one person told me afterwards, “I was drooling just listening to her talk about the ingredients she will be serving!” Indeed, Katrina gave a wonderfully enticing chat and set the table nicely for the many Gift and Thrift volunteers and others attending the ceremony.

The white hard hat made Katrina look… er, uh, enticing as well.

Our understanding is that August 2009 is the target date for opening the Business Campus and thus A Bowl of Good! Stay tuned!

Our family used up our frequent flyer miles and went back to visit Guatemala this summer. We returned this week and we are back in the saddle cooking all day. We had some Roma striped Tomatoes available from our garden and so we have included them in our Garden Tomato and Basil Bertha Burstin’ Loaves.

We are thankful to Rachel Dorsey, Helena and Wes Edwards, and Mary Bendfeldt who helped provide you A Bowl of Good products at the market while we were gone and made our trip possible. We heard nothing but good and we’re hoping we can get Wes a gig here in the ‘burg for his guitar playing.

The trip gave us lots of ideas for ingredients and cooking from beautiful and colorful Guatemala.

From the Poqomchi (Eva’s people group) we ate the white, corn based, turkey soup called “Sak’ ik’”.

From the Keck’chi’ (Luther’s people group) we ate the clear red based, turkey soup called “Kak’ ik’”.

And from the Ixil we ate the amazingly healthy Boxboles (pronounced bosch-bowl-ies) which are essentially steamed squash-type leaves wrapped around tortilla paste, slathered in a delicious tomato sauce, and dipped in a pumpkin seed sauce. They look like green cigars.

We always like talking about Guatemala. If you have an inkling of interest, drop by and have a chat with us about it.