Alas, two meals

Saturday, August 16, 2008

It’s time to play catch-up for my local meals during the past week!  Not that there were so many, but I’ve just developed a bad habit of running out of time to do much posting during the week.

My first local meal was honey roasted pork chops, lima beans, and braised lacinato kale.  I picked up two big bags of limas from a vendor at last Saturday’s Clark Park farmer’s market (I can’t remember the name of the vendor, but he’s always the last stand, all the way to the right of the vendor line), and they were so good!  Sadly, I am the only lima bean lover in the house, although I am convinced that if I could only convince my husband to give them a chance without his preconceptions (that preconception: mushy, canned lima beans) he would love them as much as I do.

pork chops, Lancaster Farm Fresh - 100 miles
honey, Pennypack Farm - 31 miles
lacinato kale, my garden - 0 miles
chicken stock, homemade from Pennypack Farm chicken carcass - 31 miles
limas, unknown vendor from Clark Park - within 100 miles
garlic, my garden - 0 miles

My second meal was near and dear to my heart: it marks the first time ever I was able to successfully grow beets!  My husband claims golden beets taste better than red ones, so I grew them this year and harvested them a few days ago.  I roasted them and combined them with a vinaigrette of red wine vinegar, lemon juice, olive oil, salt, and dill from the garden.  I served them up with sauted swiss chard and garlic, the last of the potato and parsley salad, and a nice duck breast.  Delicious!

beets, my garden - 0 miles
dill, my garden - 0 miles
chard, my garden - 0 miles
garlic, my garden - 0 miles
potato, Landisdale Farm - 100 miles and my garden - 0 miles
parsley, my garden - 0 miles
duck, Griggstown Quail Farm, 56 miles

In all cases, olive oil, salt and pepper, red wine vinegar, and lemon juice not local.