The Weekend & One Local Summer

First, we had our One Local Summer meal - our own beef steaks (sirloin no less), baby potatoes (Amish garden), fried zuccinni (Amish garden) and fresh fruit for desert. The Amish foods were all within 1 mile of the house - I went Saturday (actually had to make 2 trips) but oh so yummy!!


Then, I spent Saturday afternoon and Sunday processing all this food:

4 pints black rasberry jam - and 4 quarts of fruit to freeze.
10 lbs. of rhubarb that I ran through my food processor and froze into 3 cup servings -

these will be used for rhubarb pudding

10 quarts of strawberries that I washed, cored and bagged for freezing -
I ended up with 5 quart sized bags stuffed completely full. Along with a
few quarts that got aten by the munchkins

No sewing got done, no riding horses, no nothing. I worked in the yard (I had a day Sunday with no kids - Jessie went to a graduation party in Ashtabula with her grandparents for the day and Tyler went farming with Todd), worked in my flowerbeds, worked in the garden and spent about an hour just swinging in the shade.

And we have discovered a new fun past-time - give the baby chicks a couple worms and watch them chase each other around. That was good for about 20 minutes of laughs.

One Local Summer - Week 2

We actually did pretty good this week - Tuesday night I made pork chops (from our pig), egg noodles from our Amish neighbor and green beans and corn from last year's garden.

Thursday night I made hamburgers (our steer, Amish cheese and store brought buns) with homemade ketchup (that I made 2 years ago), french fries (Ramseyer Potato Farms - 15 miles) and salad with onions, radishes and spinach greens (all from our Amish neighbor.

Yesterday we had brautwurst (from our local butcher - local meat), baked beans and corn from last year's garden.

For us, it's actually pretty easy to eat Local - as we raise 90% of our own meat. The only meat we buy is chicken - so the side dishes are what kills me.

No pictures - my SD card from my camera locked up, and I can't add or remove pictures from that card.

Kris

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