food delicious food

Aparently, people are eager to hear about where and what we've been eating.  Before several requests, it hadn't occurred to us to blog about food, but now that it's been suggested, it does seem like a simple way to reassure all those who might worry that we are indeed eating well and often. So as head chef (and bottle washer) Iris is stepping up and donning yet another hat as restaurant/food critic for the duration of this blog.

Already we've had several delicious meals.

Dorathee, our host at the vineyard, is quite the farm chef and welcomed us in with a slew of garden-fresh and homemade meals including: just-wilted chard with sautéed onions, hearty bean and potato stew with brown rice, butternut squash and curd casserole, just-steamed corn-on-the-cob, fresh tomato sauce on spaghetti, cherry tomatoes ripe from the garden, oatmeal bread with butter and jam, granola and fresh-picked peaches and raspberries for breakfast, peach pie for dessert and plenty of fresh grapes all around.
We were more than well fed with such delicious foods and plenty of vegan choosings and delicious low-sugar desserts.

  

Oh an how could I forget, the wine!  Mel kept our wine glasses well stocked with the full range of Keuka Lake Vineyard's offerings, guiding us expertly through our own private tasting and tour as well as carefully selecting among his wines for additional tasting with dinner.  What at treat!

And then there were the grapes, grapes and more grapes!

We munched on them in the kitchen when we first arrived, we purchased some at roadside stand and nibbled them on a long bike ride, ate some for dessert after another pleasant meal and on our way out, we stopped with Dorathee to pick concord grapes to take with us for the road.  Yum!

If all that wasn't enough, Zach and Iris discovered
the nourishment to be found in the wild.  On a mission with Mel, we made our way up through tangled forests to an ancient, overgrown orchard and earned our keep by collecting bags full of fallen apples to make cider.  Zach even discovered a few pears!

 Who said this vegan doesn't know how to feed himself?