This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was a tribute to the unseasonably warm weather: grilled ribeye steak with sauteéd spinach, pan-fried butternut squash, and a salad with crumbled bacon and hard-cooked eggs.
Here are my sources:
- ribeye steak from Greyledge Farm
- butternut squash from Riverbank Farm
- spinach from Fort Hill Farm via New Morning Natural Foods
- red leaf lettuce from Holbrook Farm
- egg from Greyledge Farm
- bacon from Eagle Wood Farms
- oil and vinegar from the big bad world
- dried basil and thyme from my garden
What a gorgeous several days in a row! It’s been 70+ degrees and sunny. I love firing up the grill—I’ve only been grilling a short time, so I still get excited when the meals work out. I love the smell of sizzling steak in the air. It smells like summer. (I do have one neighbor that continues to light fires in her fireplace well into the 90s!).
It was so nice, I wanted to start planting, but I’m afraid the year might have at least one more freezing night in her.
And then the weather remembered what it usually is this time of year and promptly made tracks back. Today was in the 50s and raining and we’ll be back into the 40s before the week is out. Ahh, but it was nice while it lasted.
This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal wa
s
on Mar 27th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
[...] at Sophie’s place (Late Bloomers Farm), dinner was an homage to warmer weather. She fired up the grill for a ribeye steak, serving it [...]