Posts under ‘Eat Local Challenge’

I can’t believe it’s already time for the Dark Days Challenge and I can’t believe it’s already the 4th! Thanks Laura at (Not so) Urban Hennery for hosting this again. My first post of the challenge is an easy quiche, based on this recipe, designed for minimal kitchen prep time. I slowed the recipe down [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was pork chops with apples and acorn squash. The sweet and the heat together in this dish are really awesome. Pork chops from Ox Hollow Farm Cortland apple and apple cider from Silverman’s Farm acorn squash from Waldingfield Farm shallots and red pepper from Cherry Grove in [...]

The October 2008 Eat Local Challenge is coming to an end and I’m a bit disappointed that I didn’t have a slew of gourmet local meals to share here. I’m disappointed that I actually ate more “away” meals this month than the month before simply because that’s the way the calendar played out with social [...]

Here’s my food log for Week 3 of the October 2008 Eat Local Challenge. Monday, October 13: Breakfast (Default): Coffee (with raw milk, from Foxfire Dairy) Macoun apple (from one of the local orchards:  Blue Jay Orchards, Glastonbury via Shortts Farm, Silverman’s, or Missy’s) Yogurt (usually my own, made from raw milk from Stonewall Dairy) with a dollop [...]

Here’s my food log for Week 2 of the October 2008 Eat Local Challenge. Monday, October 6: Breakfast (Default): Coffee (with raw milk, Stonewall Dairy) Apple from High Hill Orchard in Meriden, CT Yogurt (my own, made from raw milk from Stonewall Dairy) with a dollop of mixed berry jam (discovered at Dutton Farm in Manchester, [...]

I decided to post my food logs weekly on Sunday evenings. This is a short week, with the challenge beginning on Wednesday, but here it is, food log for Week 1 of the October 2008 Eat Local Challenge. Wednesday, October 1: Default Breakfast: Coffee (with raw milk, Stonewall Dairy) Apple from Blue Jay Orchards Yogurt [...]

I’m taking the October 2008 Eat Local Challenge. We were asked to describe how we’ll be participating in this challenge. Here’s mine: What is your definition of local? Local for me is 100 miles from Newtown, CT (just east of Danbury). This year (and for this challenge), I’m extending local to include the items I [...]