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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 [...] I feel like I’ve been slacking on the Dark Days challenge these past few weeks so tonight I made sure that I had the camera charged and available and that I remembered to take some photos. It was a simple meal, the kind that you can put in the slow cooker in the morning and [...] The South: Lynn recently realized that one in four of her family’s 14 Dark Days meals has been breakfast. This week, Lynn’s husband cooked up a delicious potato and sausage frittata for Sunday breakfast. While her family eats dinner together several nights each week, they’ve rarely had family breakfasts until Dark Days. Recuperating from a cold, Kristina [...] The Midwest: El (Fast Grows the Weeds) embraced the food of her Lake Michigan ancestor’s and made pasties (short a, I think) for dinner last week. These meat and potato filled turnovers sported local and homegrown ground beef, side pork, potatoes, carrots, rutabaga, onion, celery and herbs with a greenhouse salad on the side. [...] 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 [...] Beef stew is a winter standby around here, and last week was no exception. I’ve found that the best way to make beef stew is long and slow in the oven. Even better is to cook it for hours one night and then eat it the next with cream biscuits straight from the oven with [...] The East: Jennie (Daftly Smitten) had an odd week due to all of the snow but still managed both Bittman’s polenta pancakes with local strawberry syrup (yum!) and Potatoes Anna. The potatoes also included apples, onions, mushrooms and a bit of cream. Hopefully life is returning to normal now. It might look monochrome, but it was a [...] |
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