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I’m a little behind in my Dark Days Eat Local Challenge posts. It’s currently week 8, nearly 9, and my last post was week 5! Still, it’s local almost all the time here—easily 80-90% on a daily basis. Unfortunately, it’s come down to choosing between doing local vs. writing about local lately. Here’s to hoping [...]

While making Spaghetti Squash Alfredo, I noticed the texture of the spaghetti squash wasn’t unlike grated potatoes and thought perhaps latkes would be an experiment worth pursuing. My dish was loosely based on this latke recipe. Truthfully, it wasn’t wonderful. Two eggs were way too much for half a spaghetti squash so I had to add more [...]

Laura over at (not so) Urban Hennery is continuing the Dark Days Eat Local Challenge tradition. The rules are to cook one meal each week featuring SOLE (sustainable, organic, local, ethical) ingredients and write about it on your blog. We set our own food zones and exceptions.Weekly recaps by group are posted over at (not [...]

Patti (my CSA farmer) is on a zucchini roll lately. She made zucchini brownies (which I heard were fabulous) and went on to share this link to Zucchini Five Ways. Now is the time to ferret out the zucchini recipes since it’s just the beginning of what’s looking like a long and prosperous zucchini season. [...]

It was a fairly unexciting food week with most of the greens getting sautéed with garlic scapes and olive oil and stored away for the dark days. However, I did make fried squash blossoms and that’s something you don’t see every day. . I made a batter using: one egg (Woodbury Laid) 2 Tbsp of [...]

Bone broth is making a come-back. It used to be quite ordinary but with inexpensive and convenient broths and stocks available in cans and boxes, few take the time to make this delicious, nutritious food. And that’s a shame because you could be getting chondroitin, glucosamine, and collagen for free! The boxed and canned broths [...]

As I mentioned, Lisa gave me some heirloom Connecticut Red Fife wheat for trials (from Curtis Eck near Kent, CT).I am hardly a baker and Lisa might have gotten more professional results asking Kaela. Still, I am an eater and a darn good one at that. So far, I’ve tried a pie crust and made [...]

For Sport Hill Farm’s Eat Local CT Challenge, I made a broccoli quiche and… Broccoli lettuce soup! The pie crust had a great flavor—my new flour mix is a winning combo. The soup was interesting and tasted mostly like coconut. Sources pie shell Red Fife flour from Curtis Eck (HT Lisa) and Soft White Winter [...]

I made a crock-pot rotisserie chicken for Patti Popp’s Eat Local CT Challenge along with a salad with a (sort of) Thousand Island dressing. I happened upon a recipe for crock-pot rotisserie chicken at one of Kimberly Hartke’s blog carnivals. Obviously I spend too much time with Engineers because I thought there was a new [...]

My Dark Days Challenge meal #18 was roasted chicken and root vegetables with grains. This is a rather simple meal, but I needed to make chicken to get the ingredients to make more of my own chicken broth. I thought I had a stock of stock, but I emptied the freezer and found none! Broth [...]