One Local Summer, Week 12: Mid-Atlantic Region

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Only one week to go! Hard to believe. And yet everyone’s meals keep getting better and better…

Maryland

Yet another delicious zero-mile meal was enjoyed by Danielle and family. This week it was rotisserie chicken, fingerling potatoes with garlic butter and heirloom tomatoes stuffed with onion, garlic, basil and chevre cheese. Not too shabby indeed!

Ami’s refrigerator was bursting at the seams with fresh veggies so her solution was to make soup. One of the nicest things about soup is that the leftovers freeze nicely, so when winter’s in full swing Ami will be able to warm herself with the flavors of summer. The soup featured zucchini, green beans, cherry tomatoes, scallions, blue potatoes and white onions. Sounds colorful and delicious.

New York

It was a big week of local eating and celebrating for Meghan. First there was dinner at a friends which consisted of zucchini salad, corn, spicy chicken sausage and peach cobbler for dessert. Then she decided to adapt another OLS participant’s yogurt “crack cakes” pancakes for lunch one day. And finally there was a tasty dinner straight from the farmer’s market of salad, spicy turkey sausage and roasted beets.

If we had awards to give out Mia would win one for consuming the most cucumbers. I’m going to have to try this recipe because once again she broke out that cucumber salad, and she’s not the slightest bit weary of it. I’m impressed. I’m also impressed with her garden which keeps churning out those cukes. Alongside the salad she enjoyed fennel sausage, corn on the cob and bread from the farmer’s market, plus sautéed leeks from her CSA. She dressed up the salad with CSA tomatoes.

Pennsylvania

Robin was craving a greasy-spoon-stye breakfast à la Denny’s this week so her response was to break out her farmer’s market best: eggs with peppers, onion and garlic-and-chive cheddar and a side of homefries:

New Jersey

Chez Seedling we enjoyed a bistro-style meal of steak frites complete with local red wine. Swiss chard and a grape tomato salad were served on the side.

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

I am not by any means a vegetarian, but some of the meals Mikaela comes up with are enough to make me want to eat vegetarian a little more often.  Take, for instance, her pressed roasted vegetable and hummus sandwich with a side of watermelon.  Seriously, I want to reach through the screen and steal her sandwich.

Pat is on the injured list, but still eeked out a local meal.  She made meatballs and beets, which Pat says is lame but sounds pretty good to me.  Feel better, Pat!

It’s down to the bitter end of the One Local Summer challenge, but things remain the same with me - I managed a few meals last week.  One was lamb chops, green beans, and leftover spaghetti squash.  Another was a meal actually cooked for me by my husband: chicken, roasted fingerling potatoes, and corn on the cob.  The last meal was sort of a bit of a screw up - I left the homemade gnocchi in the water a bit too long and it mushed up a little.  But it was still good.  The gnocchi were mixed with sauteed swiss chard and stems.

New York

In the midst of getting ready to move, Julia still managed to eat local.  Lunches sounded particularly amazing: sandwiches of homemade whole wheat bread, garlic marinated grilled red peppers, and grilled chicken.  And for dinner one night she made a peanut sauce stirfry with broccoli, pepper, onion, and the rest of the grilled chicken.  She even helped cook for a vegetarian friendly cook out!  Julia also links to a recipe for rosemary flatbread that sounds yummy.

Peg traded a neighbor zucchini for a new zucchini recipe which she says was edible but not fantastic.  And she also voiced something I’ve often thought about: how counterintuitive it seems to grow fresh food in your garden and then cook it with radiation (microwave)...and how the USDA has its head up its bum.

-This section of the update by Nicole.