One Local Summer – Week 15

Hooooboy did I knock this one out of the park this week. It’s more of a dessert, or sweet, light lunch meal, but I could not resist giving this recipe from ChocolateandZucchini.com a go.  The only big non-local item used here was the butter – pretty necessary to get the crust just right.  I used [...]

One Local Summer – Week 14

My little garden in the backyard has finally started producing something! After a REALLY disappointing zucchini season – read: Lack Thereof – the garden has made up for things by giving me a ton of cucumbers. I planted lemon cucumbers, regular old green cucumbers, and miniature white cucumbers.  I’ve foisted some off on the neighbors, [...]

One Local Summer – Week 3

Week three brings us Shiitake Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo with a salad covered in Portabella mushrooms.  I really cannot get enough of those crispy spring greens and they’ve been making an appearance at every meal.  The ‘alfredo’ sauce was home made, and while it didn’t come out just like the store-bought stuff, it was pretty good [...]

One Local Summer – Week 2

And we’re onto Week 2. So far, there’s not a lot of produce to pick from at the market given that our growing season REALLY gets moving at the end of May into early June. Oley Valley Mushrooms always comes through with fantastic mushrooms – these Crimini ‘shrooms were seriously the best mushrooms I have [...]

OLS: Week 12

We had a sort of hectic week, but I still managed to get a local meal in.  There was a party at the house last night, and I managed to get up in the morning and throw together some pancakes (quickly becoming a favorite around here) with some fresh plums from the farmer’s market.  Ingredients [...]

OLS: Week 9

One Local Summer is already at Week 9.  Nine whole weeks of making one meal with local ingredients per week.  I can’t believe I’ve made it this far!  So, this week I went for simple, since I was doing a whole week of zucchini recipes.  The simple though paid off with an incredible taste, and [...]

Zucchini Week: Day 1

For day one of zucchini week, I decided to try something new and different. I just love Elise’s website for recipes and this one jumped right out at me as being something relatively easy and delicious and above all, different from the normal uses for zucchini. The Zucchini Fritters were all of those things and [...]

OLS: Week 7

One Local Summer rolls into week seven.  This week it’s back to being all me and I went all out.  Let’s start in the front with the zucchini, from my very own garden.  Next around, clockwise, is a zucchini bread muffin.  Finally we have a DELICIOUS bison with pesto and sharp goat cheese ravioli. Zucchini [...]

OLS: Week 3

I’m a little late on this one, but we spent all of week 3 in Scotland.  So, I think that’s okay, right? For the record, this was a lunch meal and I tend to go heavier on the green things and lighter on the meat for lunches, hence the big blob of green on the [...]

OLS: Week 2

Week 2 of One Local Summer is cooked and consumed already. I did say dill last week right? I should’ve said yogurt would be the theme of this week’s meal.  Let’s go over what’s on that plate.  In the front, Sugar Snap Peas picked up at Kimberton Whole Foods (KWF) in Kimberton, PA.  They were [...]