One Local Summer Northeast Week 2

Monday, June 15, 2009

Melissa once again made a beautiful meal, this time of chicken with a tzatziki like sauce and lots of dill. She gets an A+ for presentation!

Mama Urchin’s lunchtime salad included chicken, bacon, feta, and radishes. Sure beats any premade salad you’d buy at the store!

I really love that Sandra is involving the entire family and that she’s kept it simple this week. She served grass fed beef with greens and steamed beets

Melissa over at the Philadelphia Home Gardening Examiner featured microgreens in an elegant salad with orange champagne vinegar and shaved piave cheese. So delicate and pretty!

Leslie of CCDwell hit the farmers market and planned a meal around what she found. What a great approach!  She ended up with hamburgers with all the fixings, roasted potatoes, salad with pea shoots and garlic scapes, something I’ve seen and have been meaning to try.

Dawn of Writing: My Life placed a fried egg over some thinly sliced potatoes. Genius! This might be my new breakfast staple.

Holly really outdid herself with some Maple Mustard Panko Fried Chicken. The sauce really does look incredible and she finished the meal off with other local goodies, like spinach from her garden.

Dawn from Mainline Today had another great week with roasted kohlrabi with garlic, soy-mirin braised mustard greens, and Maryland softshell crabs. As a Marylander, I bet those softshell crabs were absolutely delicious!

This week I went the simple route again and whipped up a quick soup of potatoes, greens, and corn. I love one pot meals after a long day.

Linda made a yummy red bean stew with andouille sausage and crusty bread to sop it all up.  She also made a green salad with feta and homegrown herbs.

Erica, at the brave potato, included some beautiful pictures of her omelet with beet and radish greens, sauteed garlic scapes and homemade(!) aged gouda.  Even her frying lard was made with local ingredients in the Northeast.

Regina tried out a new recipe for an Herbed Skillet Souffle showing off superstar eggs and cheese.  She served her souffle with a salad and local bread.  Sounds like it was a learning experience!

Tina, from Our Philly CSA, was on her own for her CSA share this week, but managed to create multiple local meals for the challenge! She cooked up mashed sweet potatoes with thyme and sharp cheddar baked into a sweet potato gratin that looks amazing.  This accompanied a local roast on a bed of arugula sauteed in garlic and olive oil and steamed sugar snap peas.  In her other meals this week, she created a mostly local mini-pizza and an all-local breakfast scramble with chevre and a side of strawberries.

Robin shared her local scallops wrapped in bacon which she served with local burgers.  She also had a number of micro-challenge dishes in her meals throughout the week.

Alexa, the Lighthearted Locavore, cooked up Chubby Bunny Farms Free Range Eggs and Sauteed Spinach.  She included her recipes as well as health notes.

Erin created a veggicurious delight, going east with her Thai Cabbage Slaw with Grilled Tofu.  She included a recipe for the slaw which, Erin reports, made a great salad the next day with some additional ingredients.

Kristin, over at The Brooklyn Forager, benefited from a well-stocked local pantry and created a Chorizo Bread Pudding using local eggs, bread and chevre, as well as herbs straight from the garden.  She served this with a carrot and radish salad.  To top it all off, she opened a bottle of California-sourced, but locally-made zinfandel from Benmarl Winery.