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Our 100 mile meal: Dinner

We had a delicious dinner tonight. It consisted of stuffed quahogs, harvested and cooked by our neighbor less than half a mile away. You could taste the sea salt in them. They were delicious

We also had some yummy sauteed greens. We knew at a certain point we'd begin to get sick of a certain vegetable during its season. Well, that time has come, with greens. We have enough greens in our house to feed an army. We've got lettuce, arugala, chard, bok choy, tzoa choy, many other things ending in choy. Our CSA bags contain so many green leafy objects that we can no longer match the name to the object. We wish that the greens would come again in august, but instead with have to stuff ourselves with them now. 

On top of the sauteed greens and stuffed quahogs, we had turkey chili. The chili contained ground turkey from Vermont. It was spicy and very very good.

However, not everything can be 100 miles, for dessert we had some yummy cake pops. We know that the cakepops don't qualify as 100 mile food, but we did make them ourselves so that counts for something. Right?

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Today, I'm going to show some meals from the past couple of days.

Birthday Breakfast:
Sunday, June 24

For my mom's birthday, we made a 100 mile breakfast. The meal included fresh strawberries from Wilson Farms (Lexington MA), fresh eggs also from Wilson Farms (scrambled and fried in the bacon grease), local bacon from Codman Community Farm (Lincoln MA). Local seltzer made from our own seltzer machine. It was really really good, and we all felt very proud of our 100 mile feast.

(100 mile) Budget:

Tuesday, June 26

Now that we've moved to our summer house in Cape Cod, MA, we have to find new sources of local food, because driving to Lincoln to get meat is just impractical. We discovered How on Earth (Mattapoisett, MA) which carries a variety of local products (milk, cheeses, vegetables, fruits, etc.). However, we really felt the heat when we spent $80 on some milk, cheeses, butter, a pound of ground turkey, a breakfast sausage patty and a couple of chicken breasts. Two small bags. It was a bit disheartening.

100 mile Lunch:

Thursday, June 28

Our lunch was some bread (not local) with local goat cheese (Vermont Creamery) and sauteed greens from Bay End Farm (Buzzards Bay Ma). The goat cheese was a bit more crumbly than the average consistency, but it was really good.

Our Lunch

Our 100 mile meal: Lunch

 Sometimes you can easily tell when something is local- fresh, straight from the farm. As we washed our arugula to make our salad, a small lady bug rose to the surface. It was a close call! But it's nice to know that our arugula was fresh.

The salad featured  lots of our in-season foods. We added in leftovers from our tabouli salad (June 19) - and overall it was delish. We also had more radishes and butter- they were very good. At some point, we're going to start to hate all the radishes- too much is too much, but we know that in 2 months when they're out of season we'll want them again. Sometimes you just wish that nature could be more steady!

Overall a really good meal- I'm thinking of attempting to bake local bread this weekend!

Some tips for starting at your home-
1. It's hard to stop eating processed foods cold turkey. Try slowly adding more and more local foods into your diet as the days go by.
2. Buying local can be expensive. Don't be afraid of growing your own vegetables.
3. Don't completely cut yourself off, decide at the start which foods are okay to buy from commercial businesses. We still are buying coffee and sugar and a whole lot more that is outside our radius. Once you go longer you can think again about which foods you need.

Today we picked up our CSA from Bay End Farm in Buzzards Bay Ma. We also got local dairy products such as milk, butter, and cheese.

Our 100 mile meal: veggie+cheese platter

We sliced up radishes from Bay End Farm and filled them with butter from Katie's Farm in Maine. I love the sweetness from the butter with a kick from the radishes.

The strawberries are from Connecticut and are the sweetest berries you have ever tasted. They still have the vines on them!

The small cheese is a french cork from Westport Ma. We all loved the bite to it. The outside was cheddar consistency but the inside was more like the texture of a goat cheese. Overall, really yummy and a big hit.

The brie was from Vermont and was wonderful. The outside was slightly softer than average brie, but once you cut inside it was much, much, more soupy than normal brie. It was really really good.

The dairy products and the strawberries were bought at Whole Foods- they have a terrific selection of local foods. The radishes were from Bay End Farm/

Our 100 mile meal: Dinner
-Snow Peas from Wilsons Farm in Lexington
-Pork Chops from Codman Community Farm in Lincon

The porkchops were superb, we should have made more. It was one of the foods that really do taste better local, it was slightly more fatty, but had so much more juice- it was delish.
The snow peas were also quite good. The produce from Wilsons is very reliable and often you can taste the difference.
We decided that we must go back to Codmans and pick up some more pork chops- yum!

Today our main 100 mile meal was a salad for lunch

In our tabouleh salad there was buckwheat from Mass, local green onions, mint, and chives as well as a lovely dressing. We included cucumbers and tomatoes, but those weren't local. It was very good!