Locavore dinner

[flea]

Smoked polish (pork) sausage - Fickle Creek Farm (excellent!)
Mashed potatoes (Kroger) and turnips (SEEDS)
Butter Lettuce (Maple Creek Farm) with dressing (Paul Newman)
Bread (Whole foods) and butter (Kroger)

I could have bought potatoes at the Farmer's Market, but we already had some that needed to be used.

Also bought: early strawberries (surely greenhouse, right?), spinach, white sweet potato (only one, it is immense), kale seedlings, pork chops.

We should do a locavore dinner every weekend; aside from vegetables and berries in season (alas no tree fruits), there are pork, chickens, eggs, goat, cheese, and beef available. Interestingly, not milk or butter.

Comments

[smonsterbite.livejournal.com]

Fickle Creek! Noah is my buddy - he was the staff liaison for the board I was on.
It all sounds delish.

[luluminion.livejournal.com]

That sounds delicious!

[veejane.livejournal.com]

Probably the lack of milk/butter is related to pasteurizing, right? I am to understand there's a thriving market for raw milk and milk products, but it's all under the table. (I don't know how difficult/expensive pasteurizing would be, for the small operation; that might be a factor too.)

It weirds me out how other parts of the country have so much in the way of animal products available -- they are vanishingly rare at the farmer's markets I attend. Usually at one market there will be a single vendor, selling organic eggs and cheeses on hand, or a small amount of frozen meat to order. I know our markets are comparatively smaller than the one in your city, but it seems like a big niche that's not being filled, you know?