Week 4: Western Region

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Wow, can you believe that we’re almost at the 1/3 way point for One Local Summer already? And we’re just now getting into the thick of the growing season, where everything is plentiful. If the first four weeks have flown by so quickly, I’m almost sad at how quickly this summer will be just a memory.

Anita of Married with Dinner joins us this week with a Mexican egg dish called huevos motuleños, which pairs a bunch of fresh veggies (peppers, onions, tomatoes, and more) with black beans, eggs, cheese and ham on corn tortillas. It sounds like it’s right up my Mexican food lovin’ alley. Yum ^2!

Lauren of Shooting Stars of Thought hosted an all-local feast this week, featuring salad, mussels and clams (although one of the mussels had a hijacker!), Womack chicken, roasted veggies, grilled corn on the cob, local wine, and fruit salad for dessert! Sounds wonderful!

Rounding out this week is Kathleen of Our Life in the Country who has had blazing hot weather this week and has eaten indoors pretty much every day. This week she shares with us a very summery meal of pork chops, a nice butter lettuce salad, and yellow chard.

With the real hot part of summer just starting, I’m looking forward to seeing what is new in the upcoming weeks. I know that I’ve been eating lighter as it gets hotter, I wonder if that holds true for everyone else. We’ll see…