First, a quick note: I realized that when I signed up to participate in One Local Summer this year, I didn’t bother to pay attention to how many weeks the summer was supposed to last. Part of me thinks that since last week was an even week 10, the OLS exercise could easily be over, [...]
OLS Week 10: Osso Buco
Whew! I made it.
Today’s meal hinged on a trip to the farmers’ market, which, finishing up brunch in Alpine at 11:30 this morning, I was pretty sure I was going to miss. But a well-timed return and a coincidental $15 in cash meant that I was able to squeeze in mere minutes before farmers began [...]
OLS Week 9: Gnocchi Reprise
I buy just about every local foodstuff I can get my hands on, but with every new product I try, my favorite remains the same: potatoes. Having local potatoes means a meal becomes a meal; a starch has the honor of joining the plate alongside meat and vegetables. Potatoes are just about the only starch [...]
OLS week #8: most local meal yet?
I had a particularly fun time with this week’s meal, because I managed to acquire all of the ingredients without getting in a car at all. Between moving to a more central neighborhood last March, and the opening of several new farmers’ markets this summer, there are now seven markets that are within biking distance [...]
OLS Week #6: Plank-Grilled Fish
To me, nothing says summer like corn on the cob hot off the grill. This week’s meal was a delicious excuse to indulge.
The Meal:
Plank Grilled Wahoo and Swordfish with Apricot Sauce
Corn on the Cob and Foil-Roasted Squash Medley
Simple and classic–it doesn’t get more summery.
OLS Weeks 4 & 5
It’s OLS catch-up day! (I apologize for the brevity of this post, but I’ve got a batch of homebrew going and I keep leaping up from the computer to tend to it).
Week 4:
Week 4 found me with a dozen friends over for a backyard barbeque, and the pleasure of realizing I could feed them locally. [...]
One Local Summer Week # 3: Grouper!
Ah, me and OLS–there’s always a reason for me to get behind. While busy weekends have kept me from posting, they haven’t kept me from eating delicious local meals. Here’s my meal from OLS week 3 which was easily my favorite meal of the summer so far.
This week I stopped by the World Famous Smoked [...]
One Local Summer Week #2: Elk!
Ok, I took some liberties with “local” this week, when I decided to explore the depths of my freezer and came across two elk ribeye steaks that a friend had given me last summer. The meat comes from his family’s ranch in Minot, North Dakota, and was part of an enormous dry-ice packed cooler that [...]
One Local Summer Week 1
This week was the first week of one local summer, and I kicked it off with a classic: steak and potatoes.
Ok, it was a little more involved than just steak and potatoes. Here were the dishes:
Cherry & Vanilla Porter Marinated Tri-Tip with Porter-Glazed Shitake Mushrooms
Grilled Artichokes with Sauteed Grape Tomatoes and Dill
Tri-Color Medley of [...]
Eating local and summer
It dawned on me the other week that had been almost a year since the start of last year’s One Local Summer. The exercise involved committing to eat one completely local meal just once a week, for each week of the summer. It was amazing, and that is an understatement. I started out knowing [...]