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CSA Week 2: A garden bouquet

June 17, 2008

Our second CSA box from Local Roots was waiting on the front porch when I got home from work. Today’s box contained:

A bunch of mustard greens
Mystery lettuce #1 (in the middle: thick, deeply lobed leaves, almost chewy, neither bitter nor sweet)
Mystery lettuce #2 (on the right: dappled with burgundy, romaine texture, slightly bitter)
Frisée
Small pink [...]

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One Local Summer: Week #2

June 15, 2008

When I bought our food primarily at grocery stores, I planned meals before I went shopping. I could find almost any foods I wanted at one of the several groceries within a mile of our house, and I would sometimes shop at more than one to find the raw ingredients for the recipes I’d chosen. [...]

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Starts

June 12, 2008

These are not my hands, but Sarah’s, planting Walla Walla sweet onion starts in the Good Neighbor Garden Project’s first garden. The Project, which aims to promote community through the creation of edible gardens on public property, is the brainchild of a couple of friends who were also involved in starting the farmers’ market in [...]

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One Local Summer: Week 1

June 8, 2008

The abundance of edible riches available at Seattle’s farmers’ markets this week made eating locally a relatively simple — and quite delightful — proposition. With raw ingredients as fresh as these, we tend to cook simple meals that allow their flavors to really shine.
Last Sunday, the first day of the One Local Summer challenge, we [...]

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Market Report: The big haul

June 2, 2008

Here’s what I brought home this weekend from both the University District Farmers’ Market and Ballard Farmer’s Market.
Asparagus (oops, forgot to ask)
Bamboo shoots (Rockridge Orchards, Enumclaw, WA)
Broccoli (Sidhu Farms, Puyallup, WA)
Cherries, burlat (Mattawa, WA)
Chicken (Sea Breeze Farm, Vashon Island, WA)
Eggs (Skagit River Ranch, Sedro Wooley, WA)
Farro (Bluebird Grain Farms, Winthrop, WA)
Cake Flour (Bluebird Grain [...]

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One Local Summer Begins

June 1, 2008

For the past couple of years, I’ve enjoyed reading posts from One Local Summer, a local foods challenge in which bloggers prepare one completely local-food dinner each week. This year, I signed up for the challenge, which is now being hosted by Farm to Philly.
We eat local foods much of the time, so I had [...]

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