Tag: one local summer
One Local Summer #7: Greenpoint Greens
This weekend I decided to take a trek out to the rooftop farm that everyone is talking about. (Yes, even though it's probably the most local my food could get without stealing from a neighbor's tomato patch, it's still...
One Local Summer #6: Pork Chop!
This week's local meal was a free-range pork chop from Wilklow Orchards, steamed baby artichokes, and corn on the cob. Everything was purchased at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket. Nothing exotic, but quite tasty. I would say that it...
One Local Summer #5: Have local snacks, will travel
It's been a little hard to tell what's local the past couple weeks, as we've been splitting our time across three states. Traveling also puts a dent in one's kitchen time, so it's no surprise I've been slacking a...
One Local Summer #4: Local Leftovers
Tabbouleh-inspired grain salads are one of my favorite lazy summer meals. They're so quick to pull together, there's no need to heat up the kitchen, and they can be adapted to just about any leftovers you have in your...
One Local Summer #3: Prepping for Pollinator Week
This week's meal is a simple supper: roasted turkey thighs with sage, steamed broccoli, and wheat berries. The turkey is from DiPaola's, the sage from Stoneledge Farm, the broccoli from Eckerton Hill Farm, and the wheat from Cayuga Pure...
One Local Summer #2: A June Morning
I've had a little bit of a radish obsession lately. I've been eating them sliced roughly and scattered with salt, their sweet bitterness the perfect crisp pick-me-up for a humid June day. So of course they accompanied this week's...
One Local Summer #1: New Summer, New Local(e)
It's time again for One Local Summer! This will be my second year of participation, but to me it feels like I'm starting from scratch, because not only have we been out of the shopping/cooking groove for months (and...
One Local Summer #13: Braised Lamb
I am sad to say this marks the last official One Local Summer post. I'll be continuing to eat a lot of local foods and post about them, though! This week I made a recipe from The Herbfarm Cookbook:...
One Local Summer #12: Kefta Mkaouara
Tonight's dinner marks the beginning of my personal recipe challenge. As I mentioned before, I use plenty of recipes for baking and special occasions, but in my day-to-day cooking, I often operate on habit and instinct. This makes for...
One Local Summer #11: Summer Fish Soup
It's another seafood week at The Brave Potato: fresh local halibut and Connecticut Blue Point Oysters! I threw together a quick soup with the halibut and all the vegetables hiding in the corners of the fridge: cabbage, green beans and...
One Local Summer #10: Meat and Veg
Two very similar local meals this week, both so good I couldn't choose between them: t-bone steak with summer tomato salad and spicy broiled veal heart with a purple-tinged salad. A while ago I tried making beef heart with mixed...
One Local Summer #9: Potato Guanciale "Pizza"
My favorite unexpected pizza* topping is potato. Unlike the carb-fest of pasta on pizza, the earthy flavor of the potato and its soft bite can add another dimension to a suitably thin-crusted pie. My favorite unexpected pizza is the #4...
One Local Summer #8: Stuffed Zucchini
Although it isn't local to Massachusetts, I have to give a shout out to Massa Organics brown rice. After a friend introduced it to me a couple years ago, I've been hooked - I brought back several pounds of...
One Local Summer #7: Pork cube steak, tomato salad and yogurt
Two things are responsible for this week's local meal: the first tomatoes of this summer's CSA share, and the heat that is making me loathe to use the oven. Making granola yesterday was bad enough - just standing next...
One Local Summer #6: Halibut, polenta and wilted radicchio
This week we decided to take a break from the red meat and sample some local seafood. My favorite fish market is the New Deal in Cambridge: I am not a fish expert, but everything I have bought there has...
One Local Summer #5: Slow-cooked pork, polenta and kale
This weeks local meal comes courtesy of one very non-local appliance, my rockin' Sanyo ECJ-D100S Rice Cooker. This little beauty not only cooks rice, grains and porridges of all sorts to perfection, it has a timer that can have...
One Local Summer #4: Not Entirely Local
Last weekend we drove out to our CSA, Red Fire Farms in Granby, MA, to take advantage of their pick-your-own offerings. We had a narrow escape with a drenching thunderstorm, but we came away with a huge bag of shelling...
One Local Summer #3: More cornmeal
This week's One Local Summer meal was veal loin chops, white polenta, and steamed asparagus with a dill and cream sauce. This was a pretty simple preparation: only pan-frying, simmering and steaming. The ingredients made it feel like a...
One Local Summer #2: Breakfast for dinner
Ok, so the thing about my wonderful, awesome, perfect meat CSA, is that they keep sending me breakfast meat. Lots of breakfast meat. More than we could eat in a week of Sunday brunches. And I can't quite bring myself...
One Local Summer #1b*: Local in a Hurry
This week's local meal was veal tongue with parsnip and sunchoke gratin and radish salad. While it was tasty, it could have been much better. Sadly, I had a late day at work, and ended up rushing the gratin...
One Local Summer #1: Beginning with breakfast
This summer I am taking the One Local Summer challenge. Participants cook and blog one meal a week consisting of all local ingredients. Returning back from vacation, the pantry was a little low, but I managed a nice little...
