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This was the title of course offered down the street from us by the local parks and rec department. The joke, of course, is that we’d just ordered 15 muscovy ducks with the express purpose of making our own cassoulet. I now provide you with the timeline of the Official Dropstone Farms, LLC Quick [...] Local food friends Anne & Ryan hosted a potluck for the Olympics opening ceremony this week, and the assignment was to bring an international dish (because it’s the Olympics, you know). I have an affinity with Belgium, having spent a year there on exchange in high school, so I violated the rules of going [...] We’ve been reviewing our successes and not-so-much-successes from last year, and our resources for this year (including personal levels of energy and time available, as well as space), and making some decisions about when and what and how. One thing we know: we’re not going to grow produce for sale this year. We’ll [...] So, as previously mentioned, we are aiming to do the 3rd Annual Dark Days of Winter Eat Local Challenge (!) aka Dark Days. The challenge is to eat one meal per week that’s as Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical as possible — for the whole winter pretty much! November 15 to March 31. [...] So we had dinner last weekend at the eminently awesome and equally crowded Carta de Oaxaca restaurant in Ballard. It was, as ever, *really, really* good. And we sat at the bar and watched a woman spend the entire hour or so we were there doing nothing but crank out tortillas. By the end [...] In honor of yesterday’s equinox, I hurried home from work and Garth and I cooked dinner together, with a bit of prep done by him while I was still at work. I had previously purchased some lamb chops from Skagit River Ranch with a spring celebration meal in mind, so Garth thawed them and [...] Probably because late February is like the dead zone, where the overwintering and stored veggies are almost gone, but it’s just barely too early to plant anything new, we have been feeling stalled in terms of meal creativity and production. But we have pulled through somehow — I thank our still-well-stocked freezer! and our [...] We had sort of a lull in the meals around here in general, after Thanksgiving. We had a lot of sandwiches and the like. But recently, we have had a few meals that were wonderfully farm-based! Bean & veggie soup, to counteract the over-meatiness of Thanksgiving homegrown Scarlet Emperor beans homegrown kale homegrown [...] Lately we have been making a lot of dishes that will last a long time, because we have also been canning, and the prospect of cooking anew each evening is too daunting. So it’s been soups that last for days, for convenience’s sake. Recent eatin’: Eggs! omg eggs. Frittata with green and white [...] Harvest moon dinner, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. Corn: garden. Artichokes: garden. Cabbage for coleslaw: garden. Bread: homemade. Burger: from our cow. Ripe Green Zebra tomato on the burger: garden. The Harvest Moon is full [...] I was sure it was just going to rain all through August (which it did) and into September and then for the rest of the winter, with no breaks. But it has warmed up and cleared up, and we have some tomatoes coming in after all. In fact, we harvested enough on Thursday to [...] Unfortunately, our zucchini and other summer squash plants are neither as prolific nor as numerous as those of Barbara Kingsolver, whose chapter on squash in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle I just finished. We appear to be further hampered by the wet spring and summer we’ve had here, unless I am doing something else wrong that [...] |
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