Posted in growing challenge, locavore, gardens, EatLocalChallenge, eat local on Oct 1st, 2008
Tonight is a bit of a schizophrenic night.
It marks the beginning of the October Eat Local Challenge and I wanted to make something as 0 miles as we could get.
So I harvested the first of the ripe paste tomatoes (poly tunnel is the answer!) and combined with them with leeks, bell pepper, thyme, rosemary and […]
Posted in locavore, EatLocalChallenge, eat local, Dark Days on Sep 26th, 2008
We celebrated the end of a long week and the potato harvest with an all local, and mostly homegrown, dinner tonight. The potatoes are Russian fingerling fresh from the dirt, roasted in the oven in California olive oil and local butter. The slaw is red cabbage, carrot and green bell pepper from the garden tossed […]
Posted in one local summer, growing challenge, locavore, gardens, EatLocalChallenge, eat local on Aug 24th, 2008
What do you do with a glut of snap beans and cauliflower? Why add a few freshly pulled carrots and some languishing summer squash and make sweet summer pickles. These mark the end of our non-cucumber pickles for the year as the tally has gotten a bit ridiculous. It’s going to take us two years […]
Posted in growing challenge, locavore, gardens, EatLocalChallenge, eat local on Aug 7th, 2008
Sick of gardening posts yet? Sorry about it, I’m a bit brain dead right now as we catch up with the garden and I immerse myself in my new job (day 4 tomorrow).
That photo above? That’s just shy of 4 pounds of bush beans. And I’d say it’s about 20% of what we’re going to […]
Posted in one local summer, locavore, gardens, EatLocalChallenge, eat local on Aug 6th, 2008
There comes a point at which you have to cry uncle and just start searching for recipes that use as many veggies as possible. In the end I didn’t freeze the peas as it seemed a waste of such sweet, perfect peas. Instead we’re trying to eat our way through 3.5 pounds before they go […]
Posted in EatLocalChallenge on Jan 27th, 2008
My first time recapping for the Eastern region and I’m already green with jealousy of the other participants!
Kim has a source for local shrimp, which makes want to make her adopt me so I could have a local shrimp source, too! In the two weeks since the last Dark Days update, Kim has made […]
Posted in recipes, locavore, EatLocalChallenge on Oct 1st, 2007
It was a great if exhausting weekend. The Sustainable Ballard Festival was fun - not quite as busy as the Seattle Tilth fest, but pretty good considering it was blustery, overcast and raining for much of the day. I met Jim McDermott, as mentioned before, and he said helow to my hens. The girls also […]
