Adventures of a Local Foodie
Here’s my local meal for the week ending Sunday, December 14, 2008 for the Dark Days Eat Local Challenge.
Smoked veal sausages from (Sankow’s Beaver Brook) with “homefries” made from turban squash (from Waldingfield Farm).
Simple, yet something different. I like that the squash counts as both a vegetable and a carbohydrate. They’re an excellent source of [...]
There were a few local meals this week, but since the unofficial theme seems to be simple, I’ll share the I-got-home-late-and-wanted-something-light-and-easy meal:
An omelette, with eggs (from Ox Hollow farm), milk (from Beaver Brook Farm), miatake mushrooms (from Beaver Brook Farm that we dehydrated), broccoli (from Waldingfield Farm, out of the freezer), and sage cheddar cheese from [...]
I had a fabulously local Thanksgiving! The meal was the culmination of a years’ worth of locavoring with several dishes from the freezer, jars, and vacuum-sealed packages, where they’d been since they were picked and preserved in season. I enjoyed collecting and preparing the various menu items as much as I did eating them! I [...]
It was wonderful foraging at the Wooster Square Market in New Haven on Saturday (apart from it being 24°). There was an uptown kind of bustle going on, this being the “last local shopping day” before the holiday. And it is a food holiday.
I picked up numerous items, most of which will end up in [...]
