(not so) Urban Hennery

The East

Heading back into the archives, Stacey (Fessenden Farmstead) makes a repeat Dark Days meal of broccoli quiche with winter CSA vegetables and local dairy. On the side, dilly beans from last year, and a mixed-greens salad — spinach, mustard, chervil, sorrel and lettuce — from her cold frame and even an apple tart for [...]

The East:

Stacey (Fessenden Farmstead) couldn’t decide what to do with the vegetables in her crisper — golden beets from her winter CSA, and the last of the garden’s parsnips. So she ran them through her brand-new juicer and made herself an all-local breakfast in a glass.

It was a glorious 70° spring day in Philly, but [...]

The West:

Dark days are definitely behind us on the coast, as Kristen (Arugulove) shows with her weekly local meal. Spring shallots made their way into a dish with roast top sirlon and mushrooms, all served over mashed potatoes and paired with a Bordeaux-style Sonoma wine.

Over at my house (Married …with dinner) Cameron made a traditional [...]

An over-the-fence gift from a neighbor — freshly caught fish her sons brought home — helped Carly Mae (A Growing Girl) rejoin the Dark Days fold this week. Into the cast-iron skillet went the cleaned fish, plus heirloom tomatoes from the freezer and local onions; then the whole delicious dish was cooked over a backyard [...]

It seems only a few hardy Pacific Northwest souls are making it into the Dark Days Challenge’s home stretch, leaving me with fewer and fewer posts to recap (and lots of puzzling “this is my last Dark Days post” posts), even though we’ve got a few weeks left to go. Don’t forget that Dark Days [...]

At the (not so) Urban Hennery, Laura thawed a pork shoulder from her freezer stash, but couldn’t decide what to do with it. She ended up making gorgeous barbecue pork in the Crock-pot, with mashed homegrown potatoes and a leafy green salad with dried cranberries and hazelnuts on the side.

Annette at Sustainable Eats realizes she [...]