The only hard part of the Eat Local Challenge has been not being able to find local food when eating out. I enjoy going out to lunch with my co-workers and we can’t afford to go to a fine restaurant so often. So I’ve had to get used to eating lunch at home, alone. (Cue…

Yesterday I ate a cheese sandwich and strawberries for lunch, and leftover chicken and navy beans/lamb’s quarters for dinner. The cheese was hoop cheddar, purchased from a vendor at the Greensboro Farmer’s Curb Market, who told me that it is produced in Ashe County, North Carolina. The seven-grain bread was from Ninth St. Bakery in…

Yesterday I had leftover hamburger casserole for lunch, and I finished it off today at lunch. Good comfort food, and I seem to need that this week. It’s just been stressful all the way round, but not necessarily awful. Yesterday afternoon a friend called to wish us a happy anniversary. “Oh my God,” I said.…

Lunch today was late because I was too stressed out to eat, but once I did I had a salad with lettuce, spinach, radishes, and carrots from the back forty, strawberries from my front porch pots, sprouts from Snow Creek Family Organic Farm, and homemade dressing made with an egg from Back Woods Family Farm,…

Yesterday I headed to the Greensboro Farmer’s Curb Market with the major goal of buying my mother a present. Soap was out because last year I bought her soap and she said, “Everybody gives me soap. Do I smell?” So I bought some soap for us, and for her, a nice hanging basket of flowers.…

Whew, what a long week this was! After I did that panicked buying at the farmer’s market last Saturday morning, I checked the refrigerator tonight and realized that I haven’t eaten hardly any of it. I ate leftovers and salad all week because I didn’t have time to cook. This morning I went to Tate…

I did eat a very good salad today, with spotted aleppo, tennis ball, and oakleaf lettuce, French breakfast radishes, carrots, and a creamy herb dressing that I made myself, starting with my own mayonnaise. I’ll post the recipe sometime when I am not so tired, and have tweaked it a bit. But tonight I fell…

Open-faced roast beef sandwiches, leftover Seattle Grits Cake, blah, blah, blah… I’ll try to come up with something else soon, but tomorrow will be so busy that it will probably be salad. But it will be a GOOD salad.

I’m turning my fingers purple as I snack on these mulberries I picked from the tree across the street. I thought the robin in it was going to have a heart attack it was so agitated. Some of them are really good, and some of them are so-so. I can see why they have never…

Lunch today: leftover beans, lamb’s quarters, field peas, and brown rice from this weekend, strawberries, and carrot cake. Dinner tonight: I was lucky indeed that the Sandman offered to take me out to dinner and we were near Lucky 32, so I went back and had a great meal with North Carolina ingredients again! This…