We did well for ourselves during the first week of the eating locally challenge.
Monday: Rudi whipped up a stirfry for supper, combining marinated tofu and rice with local baby tat soi, broccoli, and sweet potato.
Tuesday: Rudi decided to make his own pasta sauce for the first time. He combined canned tomatoes with dried basil from last summer’s plant, green garlic and garlic chives.
Wednesday: We had local greens and tomatoes on our tuna sandwiches for lunch. Also, the strawberries were beginning to look a little sad, so I trimmed them, added some sugar, and used them and some fresh whipped cream to top the leftover cake Gramma made for Easter. Yummy!
Thursday: Nettle soup
Friday: I had read that hardboiled egg both contrasts well color-wise and tastes good with the nettle soup. It also added a little hardiness to the soup that was nice. (Particularly right before an all-nighter.)
Saturday: I believe this would the day off for the week. I ate peanut butter balls sold by (and thus presumably made locally) the Howard County 4-H folks, but that might be pushing it to include them.
Sunday: Blueberry scones with local mascarpone and farm-fresh yogurt made for a quick, but tasty brunch right before a ballgame. And dinner was pasta with more of Rudi’s homemade sauce.
We got to this week’s farmers’ market too late for rhubarb and there were no duck eggs (my back-up plan), so we came home with dandelion greens to make something with this week. We’ll let you know how it goes!
