One Local Summer, Week 11: Mid-Atlantic Region

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Maryland

Danielle served up a zero-mile breakfast this week. They feasted on an omelet of home-made fresh mozzarella and garden puplette onions and sungold tomatoes. With a side of quick potatoes– a delicious, speedy way to make hashbrowns you’ll have to see for yourself.

Finding herself flush with tomatoes from the farmer’s market Ami sauced them up along with garlic, basil, zucchini, red peppers and hot Italian sausage then served it over couscous. Then she made an heirloom tomato salad which she drizzled with olive oil and vinegar and sprinkled with garden-fresh purple basil.

New York

Meghan gathered up friends and family for a much-needed rooftop feast culled mostly from her own garden and the local farmer’s market. They started things off with some fresh veggies and a mozzarella, basil and tomato salad. This was followed by a bacon, kale and ricotta frittata. On the side they enjoyed roasted beans and a BLT salad (what a great idea). And the dessert just sounds incredible: peach goat cheese ice cream with roasted, salted pistachios drizzled with a balsamic and bay leaf reduction.

Local turkey burgers flavored with garlic and chives and topped with cheddar cheese was on the menu at Mia’s. She whipped up some more cucumber salad then grilled some eggplant and sautéed some swiss chard. To finish it all off she made a fruit crumble. Her CSA, garden and her farmer’s market supplied the ingredients.

Pennsylvania
Sausages and peppers at the beach with a side of corn was enjoyed by Robin and family. A local bakery supplied the rolls.

New Jersey

I was all about the eggplant this week. I sliced it up and fried it then layered it with some local mozzarella. Then I made a quick, fresh tomato sauce to drizzle on top. A few minutes in the oven and it was just divine.

-this section of Mid-Atlantic updated posted by Elizabeth of Seedling.
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Pennsylvania

While battling the usual CSA zucchini overload, Mikaela has been shredding and freezing - and also making her OLS meal.  Last week she made aquash stuffed with onion, garlic, herbs, seitan, and bread crumbs.  And if you’re counting, that’s only seven ingredients!

Buzz and Pat had a Philly favorite: sausage, peppers, and onions.  The peppers, onions, and tomatoes were from their garden...which just goes to show that someone is having tomato luck, even though many of us are not.  I suspect it’s all the love in their house.

The lovely ladies from Philly Farmers yanked basil, tomatoes, and some white eggplants out of the garden and then had dinner: fried eggplant rounds, sliced tomatoes, and zucchini ribbons with cheese, along with french bread drizzled with olive oil.  Delicious!

Naomi cooked up zucchini, half a giant green pepper, onion, garlic, a bit of hot pepper, plus an egg - sort of a cook ‘em if you got ‘em situation.  Whatever it is, it looks yummy!  She also made a corn and a pepper/cucumber salad.

And me, well, I had two OLS meals.  The first was honey roasted pork chops with lacinato kale and lima beans, and the second was duck breast with roasted golden beets and swiss chard.

New York

Rabi cooked up a bunch of local meals last week.  There were a bunch of salads: a salad from her garden, pickled cucumber and beet salad, and a crunchy salad.  Another meal included fish, beets and beet greens, scallions, and herbs.

Julia was busy last week with three OLS meals!  For the first meal, she came, she saw, and she conquered...grilled pizza, that is.  Sadly, her dog ate one of the pizzas.  Bad dog!  Buoyed by her grilled pizza success, she made another pizza of arugula and goat cheese.  And then she went all crazy one night and cooked for nearly three hours - bruschetta, ice cream smoothie, salad, caponata, beets and beet greens.  Wow!

Peg is back on the OLS wagon and talking about the really cool starter kit Vermont locavores have put together.  Very excellent!  For her OLS meal, Peg made pizza with the scads of cherry tomatoes she’s got coming out of the garden.  Really, I’m about to start breaking into gardens and stealing tomatoes.

This part of the OLS report by Nicole.