real good food

"Open platform for peer-driven food production needs your help"

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:35:35 -0400

“Open platform for peer-driven food production needs your help”

- http://tweetbuzz.us/entry/114007234/boingboing.net/2012/06/21/open-platform-for-peer-driven.html

#1: I'm hungry for Indian food, what do I do?

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:25:00 -0400

My mom’s been making bok-choy since I could hold my own chopsticks, so often that I could repeat her methods with my eyes closed. It was always a drop of oil, a spray of minced garlic—wait for the flavors—a family’s worth of vegetables, then heat. When the leaves and stalks started to shine over, she’d steal an abnormally large piece from the heat and throw it into her mouth. When I grew tall enough for the stove, she started offering the first bite to me for testing. Soft enough? Crunchy enough? Salty enough? With my nod of approval, it was dinner time!

My point is, I can cook Asian food with no problem; I know I’ll eat Asian stir-fry until the day I die. None of this means I don’t crave other flavors—herbs, spices, cheese. In times of dissatisfaction, I might roll my tongue around and try to translate the distaste: INDIAN FOOD

Shoot. Where do I even start? My two choices are to drive to a restaurant, pay $12 for a delicious, one-serving meal, or drive to the local Indian store, gather an armful of spices and ingredients I’ll only use once. Both sound expensive and unsustainable. Why didn’t my mom teach me how to make Palak Paneer goddammit??

This is why Real Good Food is important. I want foods that I don’t have the time, resources, or experience to make. I want the food porn that I see on Tumblr on my plate. NOW. My choices are limited, though. Real Good Food expands my options past the restaurants and stores and introduces me to my neighbors, my nearby gardeners, my local foodies. Within this vast network there are hundreds of Indian food lovers. How exciting is that?

So support us by contributing $5 (or more!). We only have 15 days left in our campaign, and we want your help!

Come say hello to Real Good Food at the Ann Arbor at the 12th...

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:17:41 -0400

Come say hello to Real Good Food at the Ann Arbor at the 12th annual Green Fair this evening from 6-8. Feel free to arrange swaps and use our table as a drop off point!

AND DON”T FORGET TO CONTRIBUTE TO OUR PEERFUNDING CAMPAIGN. 18 days left!

tree hugs!: Calling all cooks and gardeners, farmers, foodies, and chefs! :)

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:49:14 -0400

tree hugs!: Calling all cooks and gardeners, farmers, foodies, and chefs! :):

tree-hugs:

Hey guys, I wanted to share a really cool link with you- There’s a group/company trying to launch a movement called Real Good Food. Basically, it’s a website/app/database that allows people to connect with their community and literally share food with people close by. No, not recipes or digital…

a big thanks to tree-hugs for this awesome profilel! If you’re looking to contribute (only 20 days left of our Start Some Good campaign!): click HERE

keep eating!

Real Good Food: bread bread bread...SWAP!

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:25:00 -0400

Recently at a food swap we held for our Ann Arbor community, Real Good Food founder, Devin, swapped some delicious Sourdough bread with Real Good Food user, Katie.

So I wasn’t exaggerating about the tastiness of this bread. Proof? The next weekend, Katie pops into my email feed, shouting out her love for bread

Since I got a sourdough starter from Devin at the RGF swap, I have
been bread crazy! Everything from 100% whole wheat sourdough loaves,half wheat/half white sourdough loaves, English muffins, and even sweet muffins (with blueberries and cherries—they still have some sourdough taste though, which makes them interesting!).

This hunger is exactly what we at Real Good Food are about. Katie’s hungry for bread, but doesn’t wanna enter a carb coma, so she’s emailed the rest of the Real Good Food community to seek someone who’d like to join in on her bread high (in exchange for some tasty variation.)

Do you want to see more food, more swaps, more connections, more joy? Join in!

Only 22 more days left of our campaign. We’re on our way, gaining momentum. Start some more good and SUPPORT US! Never go hungry again!

don't waste your kitchen scraps! ways to save

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:15:41 -0400

1. Potatoes: get rid of mud stains

potatoes are starchy little monsters. Rub a cut potato onto your mudstain before throwing into the wash and let the starches attack!

2. Banana peels: shine your shoes

Eat your banana and before throwing out the peel, rub its inner skin on your pair of leather shoes. Buff with a soft cloth.

3. Coffee grounds: fertilize your plants

You like the caffeine, plants like the nitrogen and minerals. Feed 1 tbspn of grounds to your potted plant, and 1 cup to your garden!

4. Apple cores

Don’t buy pectin! Apples contain their own, which makes for a very tasty, natural jelly.

For more, visit the original article

Don’t forget to support Real Good Food at our Start Some Good campaign. Only 25 days left!

heavy-metal-vegan: “It is imperative to educate people that...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:09:17 -0400

heavy-metal-vegan:

“It is imperative to educate people that there is no moral difference between meat, and dairy. There is as much suffering in a glass of milk, than in a pound of steak. Indeed, given that animals exploited for dairy live longer, are treated worse, and end up in the same slaughterhouse as do “meat” animals; we can say with some confidence that there is probably more suffering involved in dairy products.”

~ Gary Lawrence Francione (American legal scholar)

Many of our Real Good Food users make the commitment to educate themselves about food truths and animal rights. Therefore, we’re gonna make the same commitment, woo! Find many like-minded and different-minded people on Real Good Food once we launch our website by SUPPORTING US on our crowdfunding Start Some Good campaign!

tryvegan: bean and avocado salsa tortilla cups. this is too...

Thu, 31 May 2012 12:24:16 -0400

tryvegan:

bean and avocado salsa tortilla cups.

this is too goodlookin. For some reason I’ve never attempted salsa—I had the habit to throw a jar into my shopping cart and buy it. Easy! But they don’t sell the above beauty in any store I’ve been to, and my mouth is watering at the thought of eating that picture…

Anyway, this is real good food! Interested in eating a food that you don’t know how to make it? Don’t pine in silence and torture. Exchange! Connect! Eat! SUPPORT OUR PEERFUNDING CAMPAIGN to create a web platform that does exactly this.

mmm peanut butter honey granola. We’ve had users trade...

Wed, 30 May 2012 11:08:00 -0400

mmm peanut butter honey granola. We’ve had users trade entire batches of granola for fresh leftover produce. Both parties got the better end of the deal, from their POVs!

Want to connect your community with FOOD? Want to eat better, REAL GOOD FOOD? Support or crowdfunding campaign! We have 27 more days to raise the money we need to create our web platform :)

(recipe here)

this is some tasty veggie paella cooked up by one of our...

Wed, 30 May 2012 10:53:00 -0400

this is some tasty veggie paella cooked up by one of our rockstars at Real Good Food when we held our slow food cook-off. Homemade, flavorful, and yummy.

Want to help us connect more people to more food? Support our crowd-funding campaign and help us raise the funds we need to do bigger things!

We at Real Good Food freaking love Bok Choy. My mom likes to...

Tue, 29 May 2012 11:41:00 -0400

We at Real Good Food freaking love Bok Choy. My mom likes to stir-fry with oil and black-bean garlic sauce. I’ve never seen Bok Choy combined with sesame seeds…I’ll try that out next time!

If you want more people to taste more delicious foods like this, SUPPORT our campaign to accelerate our food-exchange platform! We have 28 days left to reach our funding goal.

foodopia:

sesame coconut bok choy: recipe here

my mouth is watering imagining the texture this candy would...

Tue, 29 May 2012 11:36:00 -0400

my mouth is watering imagining the texture this candy would bring into my mouth…

…segue: SUPPORT our FOOD LOVERS PLATFORM. We have 28 days left to reach our funding goal so we can create our website, connect more people, and pay our interns!

e-d-i-b-l-e:

jalebis (indian sweet). i love them but only in small doses, too sweet!

props to our Real Good Food member Ana Chara for making such...

Fri, 25 May 2012 11:10:00 -0400

props to our Real Good Food member Ana Chara for making such beautiful colors in this quinoa salad-no instagram involved!

eat more beautiful foods like this in your community by contributing to our food-exchange campaign!

this looks amazing support food-making and food-trading in your...

Fri, 25 May 2012 11:07:00 -0400

this looks amazing

support food-making and food-trading in your community now!

nothing more perfectly portable than cake balls. our users are...

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:59:00 -0400

nothing more perfectly portable than cake balls. our users are baking up deliciousness every day!

start some more of this good and help us out with our REAL GOOD FOOD campaign!

The Erb Community’s GramPa Brown’s wife Kendal is...

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:57:00 -0400

The Erb Community’s GramPa Brown’s wife Kendal is an extraordinary baker and this is yet one more example of her talents.

start some more of this good

fresh, tasty, chocolate-covered strawberries made by our Real...

Mon, 21 May 2012 11:11:00 -0400

fresh, tasty, chocolate-covered strawberries made by our Real Good Food users

help start some more of this good by contributing to our REAL GOOD FOOD campaign!

sweet homegrown tomatoes ready to be shared help start some more...

Mon, 21 May 2012 10:55:00 -0400

sweet homegrown tomatoes ready to be shared

help start some more of this good!

homemade pizza always tastes good help start some more of this...

Mon, 21 May 2012 10:51:00 -0400

homemade pizza always tastes good

help start some more of this good by contributing to our REAL GOOD FOOD campaign

everyone should get to eat these yummy...

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:51:00 -0400

everyone should get to eat these yummy bars!

http://startsomegood.com/Venture/real_good_food