One Local Summer, Week 1

Well, we started the One Local Summer challenge yesterday, and I made all 3 meals of the day Sunday mostly local. This won't happen every week, but for my first week - it worked for us.

For breakfast we had:

Sausage, egg and mushroom breakfast skillet with homemade bread toasted with strawberry jam.

Sausage - 0 miles - our pig out of our freezer (originally brought from a farmer within 15 miles of us)

Eggs - 1 mile - Amish

Morrel mushrooms - our woods - leftover from our last mushroom hunting expedition

butter, salt & pepper - ???

bread - local flour and honey - not so sure about the butter, milk and yeast

strawberry jam - last year's jam out of our garden

For lunch it was:

Grilled chicken salad

Lettuce - 1 mile - Amish neighbor

boneless, skinless Chicken breasts - 1 mile - Amish neighbor - grilled on grill

cheese - Local bulk food store - 14 miles - they assured me 100% it is local Mennonite made cheese

Ranch salad dressing - ???

For dinner it was:

Steak salad

Leftover lettuce from lunch - 1 mile - Amish neighbor

Ribeye Steak - 0 miles - our steer from last year - our freezer - grilled on grill with seasoning salt

French fries - 15 miles - local potato farmer

croutons - 0 miles - from previous loaves of bread I have made

green onions - 1 mile - Amish neighbor

cheese - Local bulk food store - 14 miles - they assured me 100% it is local Mennonite made cheese
Ranch and Catalina salad dressing - ???

salt & pepper???

So I think I did okay. I would like to figure out a way to do my own dressings, but I think those would be a little hard to do totally local. My Amish neighbor is liking me as a customer - I'm stopping later on this week for another chicken (whole this time for this Sunday's dinner), 10 lbs. of rhubarb and whatever else he has available.

Unfortunately I only remembered to take a picture of dinner. I'll try and do better next week.

Kris