Dark Days Challenge: Prelude
Posted by Lauren on 30 Oct 2009 at 10:49 pm | Tagged as: deliciousness, local food, seasonal, washington, winter
After at least one (maybe two?) years of thinking about it, and deciding it would be too hard, and wishing I had done it, I’ve finally signed up for Laura at Urban Hennery’s Dark Days Challenge. From November 15 – March 31, eat one meal a week that’s as SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, Ethical) as possible, then blog it. Laura will round them up weekly and we can all see what everyone else is eating, and get inspiration from each other. It’s extra hard in the winter, though it helps if you have been busy preserving all winter. We didn’t can nearly as much as I had hoped — it was a tough season in many ways, but we’re almost through — but there’s a lot of good stuff in the freezer and much still in the ground, plus our two easily-accessible year-round farmers’ markets to supply what we didn’t manage to grow ourselves (Brussels sprouts, parsnips).
Anyway — join us in the Dark Days Challenge! Sign up here, and let me know so we can commiserate in, like, February.
So glad you’re going to join us! We didn’t put up nearly the volume of food (esp veggies) as last year. Good thing there’s always squash, as well as onions, potatoes, kale and meat available from the year round markets… How’s our turkey? Do you still want help butchering?
Yes! Would love help. Your turkeys is fine. We lost one but there are 5 people on the list and 5 turkeys left, so everyone is still good.
I should note, though, that when we processed the one we lost, she was smaller than we expected. She was probably the second smallest we had, but she was only like 7ish pounds. How many folks are you having over? The two toms are much bigger of course, so whoever’s having the biggest party gets the biggest turkeys. :)
Will be in touch. I’m thinking maybe Saturday the 21st?