Posts under ‘DDELC 09/10’

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal, being the last meal of the challenge, was for Julia (& Zoe): Boeuf Bourguignon, served over homemade spelt egg noodles with sautéed spinach on the side.
Sorry about the picture…we’d already started the meal when I remembered!
This is another dish prepared in the cassoulet, beginning on the stove [...]

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 [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was provided nearly entirely by Wild Hive Bakery & Café: Ravioli with a Creme Fraiche sauce.
The ravioli were homemade by Wild Hive using:

their own spelt flour
eggs from their own chickens
cheese from Ronny Brook
apple from Fishkill Farms
parsnips from Four Winds Farm
salt and pepper from away

I tossed the cooked [...]

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 [...]