Music and Cats

During the last week of OLS, I was so busy preserving the late summer’s local bounty (roasting tomatoes, making lemon balm syrup, cooking peach butter) that I didn’t cook and document an entirely local meal. Were any of our meals entirely local? What did we eat, anyway? It’s been that kind of week… until the […]

Near closing time at the Queen Anne Farmers’ Market each week, a couple of volunteers walk through the market carrying large plastic bins, and ask the farmers if they have any produce they’d like to donate to a charity. Many of the farmers are quite generous, and give large quantities of highly perishable vegetables and […]

Sadly, the Internets failed me last Sunday. We were on Vancouver Island with family, staying at Fairburn Farm and eating wonderful local food… and when I sat down to write the week’s post for One Local Summer, I couldn’t connect to the Web. Truth be told, I didn’t want to spend a lot of time […]

Now that I have a working sourdough starter, I’m looking for recipes in which to use it, other than in bread. Oh, I’ll be baking bread with it regularly, but the process of feeding it can produce more starter than I can possibly use for bread, and I’m loath to throw away the wonderful local […]

This week, we had four dinners made almost entirely from local ingredients.
Dinner 1: Salmon with mustard and dill, curried farro with snow peas, carrots and sweet onions, homemade fizzy water with apple cider (my current drink of choice)
Dinner 2: Carrot soup with dill
Dinner 3: Breakfast for dinner! Hash brown potatoes and fried eggs
Dinner 4: Grilled […]