Here’s my food log for Week 3 of the October 2008 Eat Local Challenge.
Monday, October 13:
Breakfast (Default):
- Coffee (with raw milk, from Foxfire Dairy)
- Macoun apple (from one of the local orchards: Blue Jay Orchards, Glastonbury via Shortts Farm, Silverman’s, or Missy’s)
- Yogurt (usually my own, made from raw milk from Stonewall Dairy) with a dollop of mixed berry jam (discovered at Dutton Farm in Manchester, VT) but today’s was ready-made by Beaver Brook.
Lunch:
- Leftover oven-roasted butternut squash from last night’s dinner (using this recipe)
- Ricotta (from Beaver Brook) with fig jam from (Stoneledge farm in Southbury, CT).
- Hard-boiled egg (from Stoneridge Farm, Bethlehem, CT or Holbrook Farm–I hard-boiled a mix)
Dinner:
Tuesday, October 14:
Breakfast:
- Coffee (with raw milk, from Foxfire Dairy)
- Macoun apple (from High Hill Orchard)
- Ricotta (from Beaver Brook) with fig jam from (Stoneledge farm in Southbury, CT)
Lunch: Brought in for us at work for a long meeting; exceptions apply (although they claim it was local pizza).
Dinner:Noshed while processing 50 lbs of tomatoes.
- Hard-boiled egg
- Pleasant Sun cheese (from Beaver Brook)
- Macoun apple (from High Hill Orchard)
- Biblical Bosco (tall glass of ice cold raw milk with a tablespoon of honey stirred in)
Wednesday, October 15:
Breakfast: Coffee and a Macoun apple.
Lunch:
Dinner:
- Macoun apples
- Cheese
- bread
Thursday, October 16:
Breakfast: Coffee, apple, cheese
Lunch:
- salad lettuce (from Waldingfield), leftover veal, and my northeast dressing
- Roasted red peppers (from Missy’s), local garlic
- Whole wheat bread from the Brooklyn guy at the Brewster Farmers Market
Dinner:
- Pan fried beef filet (from Stuarts)
- Pan roasted purple potatoes (from Waldingfield Farm)
- Steamed broccoli (from Waldingfield Farm)
Friday, October 17:
Breakfast: Coffee, apple, cheese
Lunch:Leftovers from dinner last night, exactly the same menu.
Dinner:
- Beef short rib ragout (made from short ribs from Stuarts, onions and shallots from Cherry Grove, garlic is local, carrots from Missy’s, wine from McLaughlin Vineyards, tomato sauce–home made starting with Vaszauskas Farm plum tomatoes)
- Whole wheat fettuccine (made from whole wheat flour from Wild Hive farm and an egg from Holbrook Farm)
And that’s all she wrote…I apologize that I am a miserable food logger. I have my excuses reasons: The calendar is over-populated (as it generally gets this time of year) and we’re trying to use our spare time for foraging and putting by. Sometimes, it comes down to a choice between eating and blogging about it. Guess what I’m picking?!
Anyway, I’ll at least try to post some pictures of some of our better local meals.
Since someone asked–I do not drink only one cup of coffee a day–not hardly at all. I drink between five and seven cups (yes, all with raw milk). I only listed one each day with breakfast to avoid tiresome repetition.
On the topic of tireless repetition…I don’t mind repeating the number of apples I consume in a day, especially when they’re Macoun apples. Since becoming a locavore last year, I won’t eat apples from anywhere else–I consider them my flagship local food (I live in the northeast and we can do apples!). I missed them big time last winter, spring, and summer and will eat as many this fall as I can possibly stand!
