The Midwest:
Brandon at Aagaard Farms admits a dinner rut, but still managing to eat a meal of entirely home grown foods. As far as I’m concerned, anyone who is still able to eat home grown foods in January in Manitoba is doing okay.
Be still my heart! Fast Grows the Weeds serves up a delicious-sounding mache salad, chicken soup, a savory leek galette and pumpkin pie.
Anne at Green Leanings made a warming pot of beef burgundy (served over a blend of mashed potatoes and turnips) and pondered the many theories behind dredging your meat in flour prior to browning.
Without much planning, Melissa at Little Locavores was able to make a mostly local batch of sausage, corn and tomato soup (the recipe came from her newly rediscovered copy of The Big Book of Soups and Stews).
At Midwest Green, they warm things up with a batch of slow cooker beef stew and some homemade squash bread (made with local flour and squash from the freezer that had grown in their garden).
Frigid weather keeps Linda, of Come Play Outdoors, and her son Sam inside on a Saturday morning, so they make breakfast together instead. It was a feast of blueberry pancakes, maple syrup and sausage and bacon from happy pigs.
At Notes From a Country Girl Living in the City, brunch is the word of the day. She made blueberry pancakes topped with local honey, fried potatoes with garlic and scrambled eggs with her own feta cheese.
Over at Put Your Shovel Where Your Mouth Is, they break out their stash of homegrown black beans and pair them with a rainbow of local ingredients (including homemade half local whole wheat tortillas) for some delicious looking quesadillas.
The Local Cook hits a few Dark Days roadblocks, learns the importance of planning ahead when trying to cook with local ingredients, but still manages to produce a batch of mostly local dilly mashed potatoes.
The South:
While pondering just how many weeks we’ve been doing this Dark Days thing, Jenelle at Delicious Potager follows Julia Child’s recipe for a classic poulete saute. Along side, she served some roasted rosemary potatoes, made from tubers her father-in-law grew.
Low Mileage Food scoffed at winter with colorful tacos. The tortillas were home made and were filled with all-local beef, cheese, tomatoes, homemade yogurt (in place of the more standard sour cream) and potatoes. Along the side were home canned green beans.
The Hippychick outdid herself this week. Her kitchen table must have been sagging under the weight of an herb-rubbed roasted chicken (once a member of her own flock) over stewed tomatoes, mushrooms, garlic and leeks, braised beet greens, steamed cauliflower (both home grown) and home canned peaches for dessert.
At Life is Like a Box of Chocolates, the Dark Days menu included barbecued Baldwin beef, a green salad topped with local feta (fresh local tomatoes in January? I’m so envious) and some cute little potatoes, dressed with a spoonful of local chevre.
The Tennessee Locavore gets 2010 started right by sticking with her resolution to eat more duck fat (she’s truly a woman after my own heart). She sauteed local potatoes and onions in three tablespoons of duck fat and when they were crispy and tender, added in a bit of already-cooked duck meat. With it, she served some wilted rainbow chard from her garden.
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