Posts under ‘challenge’

Wow. Week 15. Soon we’ll be eating asparagus…
This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was Peregion beans over wheat berries with spinach on the side.

I picked up these beans at the Coventry Farmers Market. I probably created a scene in my excitement over finding local (really local) dried beans.

Peregion beans are new to me, [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was The Northeast Locavore Feast!! Several of us from the northeast joined forces for a pot luck gathering at my home. The premise was simple: we all bring local dishes, we all eat, we all blog about it! (The original gang of seven was reduced to the [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was Red Wine Braised Short Ribs and the recipe was locally sourced as well as the food! (The recipe is from Fine Cooking, which is published by Taunton Press, a local business.)

I was faithful to the recipe, substituting ingredients only to favor local, seasonal fare.

beef short ribs [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was Osso Buco over polenta. A few weeks ago, I asked the folks at Sankow’s Beaver Brook if they had veal shanks for Osso Buco and this week, they hooked me up!
Comparing recipes from Mario Batali, Giada De Laurentiis, and Emeril Lagasse, I decided to go with [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal comes courtesy of the buffet at Salsa Restaurant, Marriot Courtyard in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
I was wondering I was going to be able to find local food on this vacation. Google wasn’t much help in locating a farmers market within walking distance of my hotel. But there [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was all about recycling (other people’s recipes, that is)!
I fell in love with the picture of Local Kitchen’s pizza crust. I’ve been looking for a good pizza dough recipe, the kind that has so much flavor people say, “the crust is the best part!” So, there I [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was pan-seared scallops with sautéed shiitakes over mizuna greens.

The scallops are from Seatuck Fish, in Lon-GUY-land (Long Island, in case you’ve never been there). I pan-seared the scallops using Iron Chef Cat Cora’s amazingly simple recipe and didn’t change a thing. The thyme was mine and the [...]

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

I love this holiday—the connection and celebration between the farmers, eaters, and Providence.
Doing a local Thanksgiving in New England should be like fishing in a barrel since Thanksgiving was invented in New England as a way of celebrating the bounty. This year, I was only slightly tempted to send the men-folk out [...]

I’m really looking forward to the Third Annual Dark Days Eat Local Challenge 09/10. Perhaps I’ll get more adventurous. Perhaps I’ll just continue to stay connected to the locavore community. Perhaps something in between.
Nonetheless, my first post is a simple favorite: Chicken Scarpariella. Perhaps you recall, I made this for the One Local Summer Challenge [...]

It’s been a while since I posted. Life got busy and there were those last few wine trail posts to finish up. Not that there wasn’t any Late Bloomer activity—I did put by some items. Not as much as last year, but it’ll have to do.
I am excited and delighted to be participating for my [...]