Eat local challenge day 28

For breakfast today I had rug hooking so we always have a nice assortment of goodies and really good coffee. Lunch we had apple and grilled cheese sandwiches, local cheese was smiths smoked gouda, apples from Plymouth and my ww bread. Dinner was a turkey pie from bongis in Duxbury, Green beans from Freitas farm in Middlebrow and mashed potato's also from frietas.
I love these Turkey pies they are definitely going to become a staple.Doing this eat local challenge really has you hunting out new sources for your food and it is surprising how many great things you will find close to home that you have never tried before. I organized the pantry of all my home canned goods today and I will be posting a list soon of all I canned this year. I had some left from last year I need to get better about using what is there. I am posting a list in the kitchen so I can check off what I use and to remind me what is there since it is in the cellar.

Eat local challenge day 27

I spent the day today trying to install a wireless printer. I just love how at the store the sales people always say( it is easy just pop the disc in and your there) NOT! All day on the phone with different tech support people and I still do not have an installed printer. Well on top of that I did manage 3 local meals. Breakfast, homemade granola: oats from Maine, honey from backyard and dried cranberry's from a bog in Plymouth. Lunch we had my own canned corn relish with grilled cheese(Smiths Massachusetts) and apple(also local from Plymouth) sandwiches on my Whole Wheat bread. Dinner was bacon bought in Maine on vacation, eggs farmers market and my ww bread and local apple cider. I saw another challenge on the web for (pioneer week) where you live as close to a pioneers life as possible. After the computer today it is looking pretty good to me.

eat local challenge day 22 (the King and I)

Well today I slipped and had lunch somewhere not in any way considered local. It was raining,I skipped breakfast it was 1 pm and I needed food fast. Not that I am sure it was actually food. I wont tell you where the title tells it all. So i tried to redeem my self at dinner. Homemade whole wheat pasta with sauce. The pasta made from ww flour bought in Maine on vacation along with salt & water. The sauce was made with tomato's from the back yard local onion and garlic and basil from the yard and two tablespoons of heavy cream. I was really surprised by how good the pasta was I really thought it would be terrible. I always buy ww pasta and I like it but I didn't think it work with homemade. A pleasant surprise.

day 12 eat local challenge

I woke up late today so we had brunch, scrambled eggs with green peppers and onions and homemade home fries. All ingredients were local except oil & spices.For dinner we had homemade
whole wheat bread and kale soup. The Linguica was Gaspars from Dartmouth Ma, kale and potato's from the farmers market and broth from my freezer,(from a locally grown chicken). The whole wheat flour was grown in Maine.The green tomato pie i made yesterday was good,i thought it would taste like apple pie but it had a very unique flavor almost floral.

day 7 eating local

Yesterday I made enough of everything that we had the same meals today, Sure makes things easy. I have a great stockpile of local food,but I am used to cooking what I am in the mood for or what I have energy to cook. This really takes a lot of planning and you may have a craving but have no substitute to fill it. I will have to get some cider, I forgot about juice for breakfast, I don't know of any local citrus orchards!We usually get a crate of cranberries from our neighbor then I will be able to make cranberry juice. I have been trying to use honey and maple syrup for almost anything I would normally use sugar for, except coffee, it has to be sugar. I canned some spiced apples the other day from apples given to me they came out pretty good, an interesting side dish.I will do a list later of all my canning I did this summer.

Day 6 eating local

Today I managed three local meals. Breakfast was Oatmeal with apples and honey. Oats grown in Maine bought on vacation, apples from a friend and honey from the back yard. Lunch was Portuguese linguica rolls bought in Westport Saturday and salad. Salad lettuce, cucumber and cherry tomato's from the back yard. Dressing was local garlic, homemade red wine vinegar from a Friends homemade wine, oil not local. Dinner was Beef stew, grass fed beef from Middleboro (plato's farm) all veggies local.only non local item was spices. Homemade bread with whole wheat grown in Maine, bought on vacation. Made an apple cake, non local flour and spices & oil.snack's
carrots, apples and plums.

weekend road trip

We spent the day yesterday exploring Westport and little compton. We had a great breakfast/lunch. of Portuguese breakfast sandwiches with linguica and potatoes and egg. We went to Grays general store in adamsville for jonny cake meal. The owner gave us some great tips on places to check out. We also drove along the shore road in Newport. I saw gates to a great farm doing work with heritage breeds, I will have to find out more about this for a later trip.We were going to try the Salvation cafe in Newport for dinner who uses a lot of locally sourced food but they did not open till 5pm and I was to hungry to wait so we headed home and stopped at a small family restaurant for dinner.I had a burger I would guess not local and Joe had seafood probably at least 1/2 local. All in all a great day stopped at a few farms, bought pumpkins, gourds,brussell sprouts, plums,onions,and Narragansett creamery cows milk feta(it is great).A beautiful fall day in New England.Today we had heuvos rancharos for brunch local eggs on homeade corn tortillas with homead salsa. The masa was not local. Dinner is homeade stuffed quahogs (clams dug by Joe) with local corn and coleslaw.