Annette at Sustainable Eats still isn’t feeling well, but managed to pull out quite a few eat local dishes this week despite her illness. She made bread sticks, breakfast shakes, pasta carbonara and another one of her delicious pizzas.
Aimee at Hippie Housewife made potato leek soup and homemade biscuits on her gorgeous new (lead-free) FiestaWare dishes.
Beth at Farming Mom has an encouraging garden report — her strawberries, daffodils and chives are all beginning to sprout. She made a dark days breakfast of home fries with potatoes and leeks, poached eggs and sprouts, along with nectarines that she canned over the summer.
Eugenia at Culinaria Eugenius made a spicy crab soup this week. She’s feeling that her reserves are getting a bit low, and had to be inventive with the soup using dried vegetables and pepper salsa to build the flavor of the soup instead of her fall backs of Old Bay and home-canned tomatoes. Sitting here in cold and rainy San Francisco, I wish I had some of this soup!
Laura at Urban Hennery tempts us with her beef stew recipe, and gives us her recipe. I’m going to be making this next week — sounds scrumptious.
Sarah at Eco Geek made a cheese souffle using local cheeses and eggs and an old family recipe. The souffle turned out beautifully, and Sarah even gives us the recipe. It’s a great choice for eating locally.
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The group seems to be getting smaller as we get closer to the end. It’s good to see signs of spring. My rhubarb is coming up and the blueberries are covered with buds. My Dark Days dinner last week was a pot of heirloom dried beans cooked with Ham, onions and hot peppers, served with chunky applesauce and whole wheat soft breadsticks.
I think I clicked “submit” on my Dark Days post at the *exact* same time that Jen clicked it for this post — I got both email notifications at the same instant.
Anyway I had some tasty pork chops and made the squash mac and cheese discussed on the mailing list!
http://www.dropstonefarms.com/2010/02/dark-days-week-14-pork-yay/