Posts under ‘DDELC 09/10’

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 [...]

My theme this week was cooking with fire…
I made a fire in the fireplace with wood from my next door neighbor—wood from trees that grew on his property and went to their wood pile when he had some tree work done. Local wood, local fire:

I made a few Girl Scout Camp favorites. For a [...]

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 [...]