All the main ingredients in these meals are locally grown or produced. Common exceptions include spices and seasonings, as well as other staple items that are typically added in small amounts. If you’re curious about where something is from just ask!
I realized Wednesday morning that I didn’t have apples for the Beet and Apple Salad! I was moping around before Madame left for work and she said to me, “Why don’t we just eat one of our frozen meals?” So we did. And the meal was a fairly complete meal—vegetables, protein, carbs—so I decided not […]
I will start by saying that gnocchi is so so so awesome! Furthermore, beets are so so so awesome. So it follows that Beet Gnocchi is so so so so so so awesome! Well, that’s ridiculous, but what I mean to say is that Beet Gnocchi is really amazingly good, and you need to make […]
I know there are TONS of linky collections and blog hops out there, and I’ve only just discovered them! So it seems a bit soon for me to host my own, but I’m doing it because I haven’t found a blog hop that focuses on LOCAL food. The rules for this 100 Mile Monday link-up […]
At the beginning of the week I was planning on making the Formosan Fried Cabbage from More with Less but decided I wanted a little bit more “going on” with the recipe. My search for “cabbage and sausage” brought me to Canadian Living’s Braised Cabbage with Apples and Sausage. Then I searched for “braised cabbage” and wound up at a Jamie […]
Last month after our big chicken meal (in which we cooked a whole chicken and actually ate very little of it) the chicken was broken down into its respective parts and has since made its way into several more meals. (Following that original chicken dinner the bony parts spent the night in the slow-cooker with […]
In the winter I tend to have a hard time coming up with pasta ideas that are meatless. I find that when I make pasta sauce using only canned vegetables or winter vegetables I really crave meat. However, as a family we limit our meat-based meals to an average of one per week. Well, thanks […]
I always feel a bit embarrassed referring to a meal as “Indian Night” because I know I am unqualified to cook it. I brought over a few of my parathas to my neighbors to try and felt like I needed to put air quotes around “Indian” when I told them that’s what we were having. […]
Well, the theme for winter cooking has been beets. And it’s a good theme since I think that beets are wonderful! But I know that I many people have a hard time eating beets and I think it’s good for me to admit that beets can be quite hard (literally) to eat. So long as […]
I referenced a few days ago that I had made ciabatta with some of my pizza dough. I like to make my dough 1-3 days in advance to enhance the flavor*. Lately I’ve been using dough that is more or less a combination of pizza dough and ciabatta. Essentially the recipe is a ciabatta recipe […]
So, before you think I cooked all this in one day you should know that the roasted veggies were leftovers. But they were still great, in fact, they were maybe even better because they weren’t quite soft enough the first time. The celeriac-beet salad was fairly simple, although celeriac can kind of be a pain […]