Low Mileage Food

Our One Local Summer meal this week was Tuesday night. School has started and I was feeling uncreative, so we fell back on our theme of meat-cheese-potatoes with Juan Pedro Pie, a recipe invented by a dear friend of mine and some of her friends. Make up your protein of choice, taco style [...]

This is a dead easy and very tasty cold salad.
Turkey
Yogurt
Poppy seeds
Nuts
Fruit
This is not an exact recipe. Cut some turkey into bite-sized pieces and put into a large bowl. Cut up some fruit and toss it in too. (Seedless grapes work well, though almost anything goes.) Add a couple larges spoonfuls of [...]

We got most of our normal stuff at the farmer’s market this past weekend, but on our way out the door, we noticed the last booth next to the door had baby watermelons for $1 and $2. They had one sliced open and the flesh looked great, and so one just hopped into our [...]

Local meal 8-15-06

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We did our OLS meal on Tuesday this week (I never manage to blog about it at the time.) We did a version of the corn cakes posted here, except mine were gluten-containing with what I had on hand:
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Yesterday we made our normal Saturday morning farmer’s market run, with our normal list of goods (does anyone want a list? I feel like I post the same things each week. We’ve been in a bit of a cooking rut lately, one that I’m hoping to get out of after I settle into [...]

Local Meal 8-7-06 007

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Taking a page from Liz, we made homemade tortillas for tacos Monday night. It had been something on the list to try, but all of the recipes I’d seen previously for tortillas featured lard or vegetable shortening, neither [...]

… well, sort of. We visited their store, at least.
When we went out of the Curb Farmer’s Market this weekend, the folks from Rocking F Farm were already gone. Fortunately for us, they’ve recently opened a store near the farm, so we drove down Monday to check it out (and get our ground [...]

Local meal 8-2–06 004

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I never got around to posting about our one local summer meal for this past week, which we did on Tuesday (and for which we had my sisters as guests.) Those are local apples, fried up with a [...]

I’m a great big nerd in some respects, and I really, really like numbers. I like being able to quantify what I’m doing and what kind of progress I’m making in any endeavor. To that end, I’ve been keeping a spreadsheet about where we’re spending our food dollars, and was rather pleased with [...]

Now that we’ve made butter several times, I thought I’d post an update on the experience.
We used ripened cream for our second batch and didn’t notice much difference. For the sake of ease, the rest of the butter we’ve made has started with the same cold, unripened heavy cream as the first small batch. [...]