Eating Local - What's for Dinner, May 25 2009

I came home from this past weekend’s Sustainable Living Fair full of inspiration for local eating, plus the ingredients for a local foods feast. I originally planned this meal for Saturday evening after the fair, but a tire blow-out on one of the trucks on the way home threw a wrench in those plans. We already had plans for Sunday with family, so the feast had to wait until today.


Here’s the menu:

Asparagus Frittata - our own eggs and asparagus from Orchard Country Produce (http://www.orchcountry.com/index.html).


Oven Roasted Potatoes with Pesto - potatoes also from Orchard Country Produce with fresh pesto made with our own basil and garlic. You may ask "Pesto at this time of year?" Well, it helps to have a greenhouse full of basil plants in need of pinching back. I was able to harvest enough tops to make a double batch. The garlic was stored from last year’s harvest.

Mixed Green Salad with Radishes and Spring Onions – lettuce, spinach and green onions from White Rose Farm (http://www.whiterosefarm.com/) and radishes from Nev-R-Dun Farm (http://www.nevrdunfarm.com/).

Limeade with local honey and homegrown mint


I had been planning on drinking a Grenache Rose from local Serpent Ridge Winery (http://www.serpentridge.com/), but ended up drinking that Saturday night after having the truck towed home (no spare and no jack, shame on us).


The non-local ingredients were olive oil, pine nuts, parmesan cheese, vinegar (but I’m working on that one), salt, pepper and of course limes. If you want to recreate this meal, all of the local ingredients will be available at the Downtown Westminster Farmers market (http://www.westminsterfarmfresh.com/), which opens this coming Saturday, May 30.


Now, off to wash the dishes…


Kris