Comments on: Dark Days Challenge - Week #1 Recap http://urbanhennery.com/2007/10/19/dark-days-challenge-week-1-recap/ Tales of a country girl and her hens. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:07:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Marcia http://urbanhennery.com/2007/10/19/dark-days-challenge-week-1-recap/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Marcia Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:46:25 +0000 http://darkdayschallenge.com/?p=262#comment-195 MARCIA FROM WYOMING…My life-partner, Rob and I live in remote west-central Wyoming on a ranch that my grandparents began some 90 years ago. We live “off-grid” with solar and wind power, raise a huge garden, have Navajo Churro sheep for wool and meat, a guard llama for the sheep, chickens for eggs and meat, fatten pigs for meat and to sell, and have a fish pond stocked with native trout. We try to live a sustainable lifestyle, trading in part for some of the things we can’t produce ourselves. My “rules” for the Dark Days of Winter Challenge will be to eat home-grown or locally every meal, every day with a few exceptions: 1)coffee, tea, wine, beer (WY is NOT known for it’s wineries and breweries), 2) dairy (although we live in the middle of ranching country – it is BEEF – not DAIRY that is grown here – I am working with a young ranch wife to “co-own” a milk cow with several people) 3) condiments, spices, olive oil 4) possibly wheat – although I am attempting to get some from Montana which may be around the 200 mile away limit. FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER - Beef roast (locally grown – traded in part for a pig) carrots, potatoes, onions in with the roast, ½ acorn squash – cavity filled with honey, butter and cinnamon-all veggies home grown. We get local honey in trade for letting them keep their hives on our property near our hay fields. Frozen raspberries sauce – raspberries from www.raspberrydelightfarms.com/ 60 miles away - over “alas” Meadowgold ice cream. MARCIA FROM WYOMING…My life-partner, Rob and I live in remote west-central Wyoming on a ranch that my grandparents began some 90 years ago. We live “off-grid” with solar and wind power, raise a huge garden, have Navajo Churro sheep for wool and meat, a guard llama for the sheep, chickens for eggs and meat, fatten pigs for meat and to sell, and have a fish pond stocked with native trout. We try to live a sustainable lifestyle, trading in part for some of the things we can’t produce ourselves. My “rules” for the Dark Days of Winter Challenge will be to eat home-grown or locally every meal, every day with a few exceptions: 1)coffee, tea, wine, beer (WY is NOT known for it’s wineries and breweries), 2) dairy (although we live in the middle of ranching country – it is BEEF – not DAIRY that is grown here – I am working with a young ranch wife to “co-own” a milk cow with several people) 3) condiments, spices, olive oil 4) possibly wheat – although I am attempting to get some from Montana which may be around the 200 mile away limit.

FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER - Beef roast (locally grown – traded in part for a pig) carrots, potatoes, onions in with the roast, ½ acorn squash – cavity filled with honey, butter and cinnamon-all veggies home grown. We get local honey in trade for letting them keep their hives on our property near our hay fields. Frozen raspberries sauce – raspberries from http://www.raspberrydelightfarms.com/ 60 miles away - over “alas” Meadowgold ice cream.

]]> By: Connie http://urbanhennery.com/2007/10/19/dark-days-challenge-week-1-recap/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Connie Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:14:35 +0000 http://darkdayschallenge.com/?p=262#comment-194 Here was our very local Sunday: Breakfast: local cherries (frozen) in local yogurt, with pumpkin bread made with local butter, flour, eggs, and pumpkin (non local: sugar, spices). Lunch: Egg salad with local eggs and butter, local bread (prob without local wheat), CSA apple and CSA carrot with dip I made with local parsley, garlic, onions and non-local olive oil. Dinner: Southwest Skillit: local ingredients: potatoes, onion, peppers, garlic, jalapeno, tomatos, corn, cilantro, cheese, butter, and sour cream. Non local: black beans, tortilla, spices. For dessert we had apple crisp made with local crabapples, flour, and butter. Non local: sugar and spices. Not bad for a Sunday! Here was our very local Sunday:
Breakfast: local cherries (frozen) in local yogurt, with pumpkin bread made with local butter, flour, eggs, and pumpkin (non local: sugar, spices).
Lunch: Egg salad with local eggs and butter, local bread (prob without local wheat), CSA apple and CSA carrot with dip I made with local parsley, garlic, onions and non-local olive oil.
Dinner: Southwest Skillit: local ingredients: potatoes, onion, peppers, garlic, jalapeno, tomatos, corn, cilantro, cheese, butter, and sour cream. Non local: black beans, tortilla, spices.
For dessert we had apple crisp made with local crabapples, flour, and butter. Non local: sugar and spices.

Not bad for a Sunday!

]]> By: Daniela http://urbanhennery.com/2007/10/19/dark-days-challenge-week-1-recap/comment-page-1/#comment-197 Daniela Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:20:53 +0000 http://darkdayschallenge.com/?p=262#comment-197 Okay, I just posted my dark days challenge meal. It was harder than I thought it would be! http://www.culinarystudent.us/?p=173 Okay, I just posted my dark days challenge meal. It was harder than I thought it would be!

http://www.culinarystudent.us/?p=173

]]> By: farm mom http://urbanhennery.com/2007/10/19/dark-days-challenge-week-1-recap/comment-page-1/#comment-196 farm mom Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:47:55 +0000 http://darkdayschallenge.com/?p=262#comment-196 Wow! You did a great write up on everyone's meals! This is going to be a lot of work for you!! You didn't know what you were getting yourself into did ya?! :) Wow! You did a great write up on everyone’s meals! This is going to be a lot of work for you!! You didn’t know what you were getting yourself into did ya?! :)

]]> By: Danielle http://urbanhennery.com/2007/10/19/dark-days-challenge-week-1-recap/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Danielle Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:47:41 +0000 http://darkdayschallenge.com/?p=262#comment-200 Wow, thanks for all the hard work on the review--it was really inspiring to read about everyone's efforts! Just for the record, though, my name's Danielle, not Jenny, though I do have a good friend named Jenny who has an equally amazing and inspiring farm, more so even. Wow, thanks for all the hard work on the review–it was really inspiring to read about everyone’s efforts!

Just for the record, though, my name’s Danielle, not Jenny, though I do have a good friend named Jenny who has an equally amazing and inspiring farm, more so even.

]]> By: Daniela http://urbanhennery.com/2007/10/19/dark-days-challenge-week-1-recap/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Daniela Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:20:43 +0000 http://darkdayschallenge.com/?p=262#comment-199 I will cook my Dark Days Challenge Dinner tomorrow since Farmers Market is on Sunday in our neighbourhood. Sorry for being late ! I will cook my Dark Days Challenge Dinner tomorrow since Farmers Market is on Sunday in our neighbourhood. Sorry for being late !

]]> By: Nikki http://urbanhennery.com/2007/10/19/dark-days-challenge-week-1-recap/comment-page-1/#comment-198 Nikki Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:31:39 +0000 http://darkdayschallenge.com/?p=262#comment-198 Quick Question Laura, As I have started doing my own grocery shopping this year and making my own choices about what to eat (since the lovely dining hall has fed me for the last 2 years as a college student), I have a question. I was at the grocery store today and wanted to buy carrots. I could either buy Organic carrots from california, or the store brand which were grown in Massachusetts. Which would be better, the organic ones that were flown across the country to boston, or the regular carrots which were grown locally? Your lil cuz, Nikki Quick Question Laura,
As I have started doing my own grocery shopping this year and making my own choices about what to eat (since the lovely dining hall has fed me for the last 2 years as a college student), I have a question. I was at the grocery store today and wanted to buy carrots. I could either buy Organic carrots from california, or the store brand which were grown in Massachusetts. Which would be better, the organic ones that were flown across the country to boston, or the regular carrots which were grown locally?
Your lil cuz, Nikki

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