Kimberly at Music and Cats breaks her writing hiatus (she’s been eating locally, just not writing about it) with a great post about frittata di pasta. She and her husband have an abundance of eggs from their chickens, and she used leftover fresh egg fettucine to make a breakfast fritatta with delicious results.
Aimee at Hippie Housewife astonishes me. With three boys and a bun in the oven, she manages to get a dark days meal on the table. This week, her Dark Days meal was prime rib, biscuits, cottage cheese and rice. If that wasn’t enough, she “whipped up” a boysenberry pie from the summer’s boysenberries. Wow.
Sarah at Eco Geek thought her French onion soup sounded easy until she decided to make her own beef stock and also cook the onions down in the oven. Of course, she needed to buy a beautiful new 13-quart Dutch oven to make the soup (I think I used the same sort of excuse to buy mine too, Sarah!). The result was delicious, and all the hard work seemed to be worth it.
To use the end of her summer harvest, Lexa at 4 Hills of Squash hunted down the best potato and leek soup recipe she could find, and added a delicata squash. I sometimes feel the same way about squash as Lexa does — she reported she was happy to get rid of one more squash.
Lauren at Dropstone Farms made meatloaf this week, with the challenge of making a meatloaf as good as her husband’s childhood memory of his mother’s, but local. She got the ingredients very local, but gave into her husband’s insistence of a ketchup glaze. The attempt was successful and her husband declared it better than his childhood meatloaf. Way to go, Lauren!
Eugenia at Culinaria Eugenius made a salad of apples, walnuts, quince dressing and greens that she foraged from her backyard — Western bittercress and dandelion greens. She also added in arugula and fennel from her garden. She added in Rogue Creamery cheese for one delicious-sounding salad.
Donna at Chocolate, Crayons & More made “easy” chili and “easy” biscuits this week. The biscuit recipe she gives us sounds so simple that even I could attempt it.
Alison at The Artisanry of Acorn Cottage made butternut squash with italian sausage, butter and sage in the middle of lots of other crafty activities.
Carly A Growing Girl is collecting about fourteen eggs a day from her chickens, so quiche was a natural choice for her Dark Days meal. She didn’t post a recipe, but knows that she’ll have plenty of chances to do so with another six dozen eggs awaiting her attention.
Annette at Sustainable Eats is noticing that local ingredients are getting a little harder to find. Among her Dark Days meals this week, she made pizza with pesto, mozzarella, tomatoes and home-cured olives.
Brittney at Rock Solid is rightly proud of a salad made from greens harvested from the garden. The fantastic looking salad was one dish in a Dark Days meal of burgers and roast potatoes.
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My Dark Days dinner last week was an old-fashioned New England Boiled Dinner that started with broth made from a local ham, and included a bunch of winter vegies from the University District Farmer’s Market: parsnips, turnips, potatoes, onions, carrots and cabbage. I made whole-wheat potato rolls to go with it, with local whole wheat flour, butter, eggs and Yukon Gold potatoes from Skagit Valley.
You have a wonderful blog full of wonderful links. The recipes look and sound so good. They would put the pounds right back on me that I managed to lose. My meals are very simple these days. I’m going to enjoy reading the “Chicken How-To.”