The Midwest:
Norah (Aagaard Farms) is glad to have participated (glad to have you!) and feels that she’s made at least a few important people more aware of local resources. Last week they enjoyed cottage pie – also known as shepherd’s pie – with homegorwn pork, onions and a topping of German butterball potatoes. They [...]
Carly Mae at A Growing Girl brings us “Local Pasta Two Ways” this week — first, a local pasta carbonara (breakfast for dinner) and then a rigatoni with a roasted tomato and eggplant sauce that she froze over the summer. She rounded out the meal with a plate of local asparagus and a [...]
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 [...]
The Midwest:
Norah (Aagaard Farms) is scraping the bottom of the pantry and root cellar, but she still managed a mostly local meal of their own pork chops and a side dish of half local Cavena Nuda (the rice for the prairies) and traveling rice. Now I want to try this nutty oat variety!
There [...]