One Local Summer, week 7:  Midwest

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

This was the “week of (free) mulberries” for Lesli of Going Green -- she and her family had them in smoothies, salads, and even on corn pone!

After a hectic few weeks, Katherine of Kitten’s Lost Her Mittens was able to put together a simple meal of steak, green beans and potatoes.

Jenny of The Nourished Kitchen put together another of her beautifully composed meals, this time with zucchini stuffed with apricots and lamb, quinoa pilaf, a simple salad and apricot-honey ice cream.

Destabee of Kaleidoscope Living is having a rough week and declares this a week of “a lot of local snacking” including blueberries, cherries, tomatoes, zucchini, eggs, a hot dog, grilled cheese sandwiches, and cantaloupe.

Becke of Columbus Foodie made the gorgeous looking CaJohns Corn Chowder with Smoked Sausage (and shares the recipe!)

Eco ‘Burban Mom Mandi made a meal of true comfort food, potato gnocci with homemade pasta sauce and a mountain of Edam cheese.

Simple but wholesome and comforting seemed to be a theme this week.  Sirena of Swimming in this Sea of Life made egg salad and served it on honey bread with some asparagus on the side.

Joy at The Spiral of Seasons also had a sandwich supper, with grilled chicken on sourdough honey whole wheat bread (with a link to the recipe) and served it with cantaloupe and honey sorbet.

Anna at twelve22.org made “cheddar mash” with Yukon gold potatoes and cheddar, and a huge serving of broccoli, kale, green beans, snow peas, and onion.

Anne at Green Leanings also had a sandwich meal with “BLTs minus the T,” corn on the cob, and zucchini capaccio (I hope I got the right link for that, Anne).

Debbie’s unpictured, unblogged meal was also simple, roasted potatoes, more slow cooked greens, green beans, and grilled zucchini.

Addendum:  Karen of toteleeding had a, well, disappointing meal of green beans from the garden, potatoes from the CSA and baked local chicken with chipotle mulberry sauce.  Turns out it needed a bit of work, but she plans to use the chicken revamped in another meal.  And the (local) milkshakes they had for dessert were wonderful!.