We had our first one local summer (OLS) meal tonight. I went to the Snohomish farmer’s market after work and was able to get some great looking produce: strawberries, cherries, apriums, lettuce, seedling potatoes and spinach. Our meal was 95% local I would guess, our only cheats being a tbs or two of butter that is local, but not organic or non-commercial, another tbs or two of parmesan cheese from somewhere far away and a pinch of salt & pepper.

I guess in the interest of full disclosure I should also say that our onions, while local to the PNW, are from some undisclosed actual location. They came from Pioneer Organics in our box on 6/13, we hadn’t used them yet and they were looking sad so I thought it better to use them up than buy new.

We made Joe’s scramble at Mike’s request. Onions, ground beef, spinach and eggs with a bit of parmesan on top. On the side we had baby potatoes (grape sized) sauteed with butter and onions. And a big huge salad - I was too full to eat mine so I’ll have it for lunch tomorrow instead. Followed up with a desserty snack of strawberries and cherries. Just want to say too, that those servings are in shallow 7″ bowls, not plates - so not nearly as huge as they look in that photo!

Ingredients and distance traveled:

• Ground beef: 3 Sisters Beef, Oak Harbor, approx. 45 miles + ferry ride
• Eggs: backyard coop, 0 miles
• Spinach: Skagit County, approx. 45 miles
• Lettuce: Skagit County, approx. 45 miles
• Cuke & Tomato: greenhouse in Snohomish, 10 miles
• Salad Dressing: Snohomish, 10 miles
• Potatoes: La Conner, 40 miles
• Onion: Pacific NW, mileage unknown.
• Non local: butter (using up what we bought at Safeway on vacation), parmesan (same as butter), salt, pepper