One local summer week 13

This weeks meal was homegrown cukes,tomato's and onion. Then a gnocchi dish made with homemade ricotta,swiss chard from a friend,homegrown onion,half and half and a hard cheese from narragansett creamery in R I and local eggs. Not local flour and olive oil. The gnocchi were light pillows of cheesy goodness.

One local summer week 12

This week's meal was grass fed london broil from Plato's harvest in Middleboro ma. Our salad was local cucumber and onion from the farmers market and tomato's from our yard with local red wine vinegar not local olive oil and oregano from the herb garden.Green beans from our garden. At this point in the summer our meals are all about 75% local anyways. My tomatos are finally ripening,our best producer looks like it will be (marriana) they are a plum tomato and seem prolific they have not ripened yet. We have had cherry's and black prince. It looks like we will have a few brandy wine and very few german stripe. I was really looking forward to the german stripe.I planted 26 tomato plants but with the lousy weather I dont expect much.

Quahog

I have had some questions about quahogs. They are a large hard shelled clam,an adult little neck or cherry stone. They are ground up and used in chowders and stuffed clams. They are dug a few inches down unlike the soft shelled clam that is much deeper in the sand.