Posts under ‘DDELC 09/10’

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was just a beverage. Just.
As if…
My Taza locavore chocolate arrived. I call it locavore chocolate because I can know exactly where it came from. So, first, I went to tazachocolate.com to look up my batch number, #230. Here’s what I learned about my chocolate:
Batch #230 – 70% [...]

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 beef stew.

I’m loving cooking with the Dutch oven. I bought it to accompany my Julia Child cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, but find myself using it for meals that are neither French nor Dutch. It’s perfect for meals that begin with a sear and [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was pan-seared pork chops with peach salsa and oven-baked sweet and cranberry potatoes, all drawing inspiration from last week’s Northeast Feast.

pork chops from Greyledge Farm (Ox Hollow)
peach salsa from Kaela’s Kitchen (one of my hostess gifts and absolutely delicious–really woke up the chops!)
sweet potato from George Hall [...]

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 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 simple: pan-seared veal sausage and sauteed kale.

veal sausage from Sankow’s Beaver Brook
kale from Holbrook Farm (the very same kale I swiped out of Lynn Holbrook’s grasp, moments after she picked it!).
garlic from Warrups
canola oil from out there

Simple. Tasty. Healthy. Quick. Local.

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 [...]