Thyme for last night's dinner, and the fourth of July!

Last night's dinner was delicious. We had braised root-beer molasses pork, sweet pepper and cucumber coleslaw, and bananas foster with vanilla ice cream. My group, Eddie, Mahlon, and me, made the sweet pepper and cucumber coleslaw, we added carrots which was delicious because we all love carrots in our coleslaw and it was overall pretty good, although it could have used a bit more dressing. The pork was delicious. After dinner we needed to pack up a bunch of stuff from the kitchen for our activities for today. and after that, the bananas foster and vanilla ice cream were a delicious rewarding treat! I'm excited for today, it's the fourth of July, obviously, and no better way to spend it than cooking for 75 people! We're going to the anathoth community gardens in cedar grove where we are participating in a cooking fundraiser. We will be making pizza, salad, and blueberry crumble bars all with delicious ingredients from the garden. After all of this cooking with local ingredients that are in season, it really makes me take a look at how I cook normally, grabbing foods from the grocery store and not looking at where they're from. I'm going to make it a personal goal of mine to try to get at least some of my ingredients locally, from the farmers market, my garden or the garden my mom helps at, and etc. and I want to work up to only using ingredients that I can find around here. I might even want to start my own garden. Not that I have a place to!