One Local Summer: Southern, week 8

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Summer produce continues its slow and steady arrival here in the Southeast, with onions, tomatoes, green beans and okra making appearances in this week’s meals.

Tennessee

Kristina the Tennessee Locavore dishes on her new-found love, roasted green beans, served in a sweet and simple meal with salt boiled new potatoes and tomatoes from her garden.

Melissa of Bridgman Pottery shares her advice for what to do when you have a bountiful fig harvest on your hands, and used some cheesy grits to mask some produce her boys don’t like, along with a cucumber-yogurt-basil salad.

Sarah at A Girl Named Go celebrates four new items in her garden harvest, onions, carrots, edamame and cherry tomatoes, with a flavorful yet labor-intensive onion tart (pictured above) and carrot beet salad.

District of Columbia

Erin of New at the Market prepared a local brunch with purple potato home fries, spicy Mexican-style scrambled eggs, slow-roasted tomatoes, salad with red currants, melon, peasant wheat toast with jam, and of course, mimosas.

Virginia

Jasmine of Knitting 40 Shades of Green makes buckwheat crepes filled with tomatoes, corn and okra, served with a watermelon salad and sweet potato. (Plus cherry amaretto cookies for dessert, yum.)

Nancy of Learning As I Go was too busy to blog this week (something I’m sure we can all relate to as summer whizzes by) but sends a note: “Our meal this week was grilled chicken kebabs with baby bell peppers (so cute!) mushrooms, and tomatoes.”

Here at FoodieTots, an empty post-vacation fridge and meager offerings in our weekly CSA bag led to a veggie-heavy nacho supper.