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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 [...]

I know that the  One Local Summer Challenge is officially over, but I made this soup this week and thought it would be a better ending to OLS 2009.

The soup is Potage Parmentier (potato and leek soup) and the recipe is from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

leeks from Cherry Grove, Newtown, CT
potatoes, [...]

This week’s One Local Summer Challenge meal washardly a meal, but it was delicious, satisfying, and nourishing!
Bruschetta:

tomatoes from Cherry Grove in Newtown
basil (mine) from the freezer (yes, last year’s cubes so I could make way for this year’s!)
shaved womanchego cheese from Cato Corner Farm (via McLaughlin Vineyards store)
bread from Wave Hill Breads pan toasted in [...]

There were several meals to choose for this week’s One Local Summer Challenge meal–I am trying to clear out the freezer so I can refill it (out with last year’s food and in with this year’s). But I chanced upon some hot peppers and decided to attempt Chicken Scarpata (which is like Chicken Scarpariella) once [...]

Summer is just zipping by!This week’s One Local Summer Challenge meal was brought to you courtesy of the grill again:

beef tenderloin from Stuarts Family Farm (medium rare, because I can!)
zucchini from…(I forgot, but definitely from a local farmers market. Could be Maple Bank Farm, could be Waldingfield Farm. I guess I need to go back [...]

This week’s One Local Summer Challenge meal was:

oven-roasted chicken: chicken from McEnroe, shallots from Don Taylor, fresh thyme, sage, rosemary, and garlic from my yard (hee hee), my chicken broth, and Coyote white wine from McLaughlin Vineyards
pan-roasted cranberry potatoes, from Maple Bank Farm
sautéed broccoli with garlic: broccoli from Holbrook Farm, garlic from Missy’s
olive oil, salt, [...]

This week’s One Local Summer Challenge meal is oven-roasted chicken and pink potatoes. Sorry I’m posting way past the deadline–hope you forgive me and I make it! It was a very tasty meal nonetheless.

chicken from Stuarts Family Farm
chicken broth, mine from the freezer from last week
white wine is Snow Goose from McLaughlin Vineyards
shallots from Don [...]

This week’s One Local Summer Challenge meal is escarole and bean soup.
To make proper escarole and bean soup, you need cannellini beans (also called white kidney beans). You could use Navy beans or some other white bean, but it really isn’t the same.
I’ve been looking to locally source cannelloni beans (or any bean for that [...]

This week’s One Local Summer Challenge meal has been a year in the making!
I put by the main ingredients for Eggplant Parmigiana last season, thinking it would make a nice meal over the winter, but the winter came and went.  I finally got around to making it this weekend.

The eggplant was from Waldingfield Farm, dipped [...]