As snowstorms raged up the East Coast, a recurring theme was comfort food and soup!
Knitting 40 Shades of Green was snowed in but made a sweet potato bisque with most of the ingredients coming from within 83 miles or less.
Delicious Potager got the fireplace going in the snowstorm and made a cabbage soup that will knock your socks off!
Hippy Chicks Adventure was in a rush to post but made a delicious soup of carrot, mushroom, leek and onion with giblets and chicken parts from their own chickens. The carrots, onion and leeks were from the garden.
Laura’s Mommy Journal was exhausted what with plane delays, extra chores and family. She went for comfort food with ribeye steak, red potatoes and green beans. The potatoes were boiled, smashed, brushed with olive oil and roasted! Yummy!
Life is Like a Box of Chocolates made sweet potato soup with fresh baked bread, garhished with dried local apples.
Low Mileage Food stayed home in the first snow and made a pork stew with homemade rolls.
The Mommy Porch made a pot roast. She acquired some ingredients from a local store, and intends on speaking to the manager about stocking more local food. She’d acquired greens, carots and onions from a local Farmers’ Market, butternut squash and garlic from another local source, grew the parsley herself and braised the roast with North Carolina wine!
Tennessee Locavore had homemade latkes, served with apple sauce she canned and sauerkraut made by a friend.
Aagaard Farms has been on differing schedules, but managed a breakfast together of porridge from local organic oats, spelt and golden flax.
Big Adventures with Little Buddies received their first meat CSA and combined it with the regular veg CSA for pan-broiled T-bone steaks served with acorn squash stuffed with carrots, turnips and apples.
Fast Grow the Weeds was looking forward to being home alone to make whatever she wanted. But, as she says: “A funny thing happened on the way to the freezer.” She found steak, All Blue potatoes fried up in home-grown goose fat, garlic mashed Triamble squash and a greenhouse salad with foraged walnuts!
Green Leanings went for comfort food: spaghetti and meat balls with locally made pasta and homemade meatballs from local grass-fed beef.
Midwest Green had a couple of local meals: homemade pancakes with local pork sausage for the whole family one evening. Then, when the kids were away, she and hubby made a meal of roasted acorn squash, nothing but acorn squash. Sounds good to me!
Nordic Walking Queen set up her housebound hubby with an easy dish to just put in the oven: home-raised chicken with carrots, potatoes and parsnip. She served it with local hydroponic salad and local blueberries she’d picked and frozen during the summer.
Notes From a Country Girl Living in the City still has turkey, turkey and more turkey! She made turkey stock, cooked it with spelt roux for a rich gravy then simmered it with turkey pieces. Earlier in the week she had also made a rustic turkey pot pie with biscuit topping. Ummmmm!
Put Your Shovel Where Your Mouth Is made lazy baguettes and had homemade ravioli in the freezer. The ravioli was stuffed with roast beets and goat cheese; it’s a recipe they will use again next year. The quick bread she describes as good but ugly, and will make great bread cubes for a Solstice dinner.
Simply Me has a recipe “not for the faint of heart or weak of colon”. She had a request from a friend with a body-building blog for something meaty with a high water content vegetable. The result is Fiery Chicken with Greens; try it at your own risk!
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