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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]