Dark Days: Soupy Galore

Sunday, February 08, 2009

My Dark Days Challenge update really is two weeks worth of local eating - the last two weeks have been fairly hectic and I didn’t get a chance to post an update last Sunday.  I might just call this the week of soups.  My stock of homemade canned chicken stock is most definitely being depleted!

First up is the soup I made nearly two weeks ago - a simple soup of Kuri squash, mustard greens, pasta, and chicken stock topped with bacon and a little cheese.  The recipe, from Sunday Soup, was a special request from my husband.  He wanted something that wasn’t too (as he puts it) “interesting”.  Everything except the pasta was local.

Last weekend I made a soup that did not make it the the photograph stage: sausage, kale, and bean soup.  I was excited about this one because I finally used up all the dried beans from last year’s garden - including the pretty Akahana Mame beans.  The sausage was Jamison’s Farms’ Merguez Sausage, a spicy lamb variety.

Lastly, I made a super simple carrot soup spiced with curry and flavored with maple syrup.  I used the recipe over at Foodie NYC.  The entire recipe is basically just carrots cooked in curry powder and glazed in maple, then blended with stock.  I stirred in a little of the new yogurt the Fair Food Farmstand is carrying from Pequea Valley Dairy.

The Fair Food has also been getting in some great locally grown salad greens lately.  I tend not to eat a lot of salad during the Spring and Summer, but in the middle of Winter seeing those greens is a thrill - I’ve been eating salads like crazy!