localvore challenge

It is quite the honor to be posting my first blog! Josh and I are also doing the localvore culninary challenge, and whew, what a trip! From trying to locate the food, to fighting off the urge to eat just that last half pint of ice cream in the freezer...we are taking more time to make our meals than ususal. Despite the time it takes to bake the bread and make each part of the meal, as well as lack of olive oil in the meal preps, we feel good about the choices. Some localvores choose a "wild card"--something that one cannot do without....mine is coffee. We have also chosen to "spice globally", meaning that we can use the spices not usually found in our garden, such as salt and pepper. Bravo to the folks who opt out of this tweak to the rules!

Old Shaw Farm is supplyig the veggies this week--so far we have made a potato and kale and onion mash, salad with feta, tomatoes and salad turnips, and boiled sweet corn for a delicious treat. Corn bread and whole wheat loaves are our carb delicacies, with some good ol' German Spatzle to be made tomorrow evening. This is super-labor-intensive, so i will only make it once. Grilled chicken and baked apples rounded out the meal last evening.

The Upper Valey Food Co-op was a pleasant place to shop, in that they not only carried the flour and corn meal we needed (from Butterworks farm--see Kat's entry), they labelled their items in the store as "local" to make the treasure hunt that much easier this wekend! Josh and I began at lunch on Sunday, realizing that we did not have local butter for breakfast. We decided to make latkes with oil-- the last for the week! Tonight we will join with the rest of the OSF crowd for a localvore feast of roasted chicken, stir fried veggies, corn bread, apple pie, squash mash and fresh corn. YUMMMM.