Might I remind you about the newly born international Eat Local Challenge blog, where I just posted an article and recipe about lamb’s quarters? My husband and I really enjoyed this at lunch today. There was not a morsel of meat in it and Sandy ate two bowls full. It was easy, inexpensive, and delicious!…

Last night’s meal of pork chops with barbeque sauce, field peas, and potato/leek salad was very, very good. I got out my first cookbook, Better Homes and Gardens, to remind myself of how to cook the pork chops. I browned them first, and then simmered them for a long time in the sauce. Excellent. Since…

Tonight will be a cooking night, since I promised to bake a cake for tomorrow’s permaculture gardening workshop with Charlie. I told him that I’ve never baked a cake before, so if it’s awful, he has to tell me it’s delicious anyway. Now I wish I had thought ahead enough to buy lots of strawberries…

Looks like my ELC daily posts will cover the evening before, since I don’t usually get on the computer late at night. My eyes need a rest by then. Last night, Sandy and I went out for a couple of drinks after I watered the community row. We have two local breweries in Greensboro –…

Okay, don’t laugh, but the egg salad sandwich I had for lunch today was nothing less than scrumptious! I was making up a batch of regular egg salad for the Sandman with sweet pickle relish, and spotted the jar of chutney. Generally I wouldn’t think of eating eggs and fruit together, but it was a…

Because I’m not wasting food, I am eating the yogurt that I forgot about this week, so it won’t go bad. So I had that with “Good God Granola” from Snow Creek Family Organics (Sandy Ridge, NC) this morning. They didn’t grow the ingredients, but they put them together. For lunch, I had a salad…

This will be a brief post, since I’ve had migraines since last night around 9:30, and I don’t want to poke the monster while it’s snoozing. Because of my sickliness, eating anything and just getting up was a challenge today. So I wasn’t 100%. Today I ate some leftover mac and cheese with broccoli. The…

The Eat Local Challenge is scheduled for May, 2006. Goal: To eat food produced within 100 miles as much as possible, then extend the range to food raised, produced, or caught in North Carolina, South Carolina, or Virginia. Exemptions: salt, pepper, flour, pasta, rice, olive oil, lemon juice, coffee, sugar. I’ll buy my fair-trade organic…

Daddy and me, 1965. Lately I’ve been sitting around fantasizing about a little farm, with a wee house, and a kitchen with a door so that I could produce baked and canned goods for sale. The door is necessary to keep our four cats out so that I could pass a health inspection. See, I’m…

Wouldn’t it be nice if all our food products could be trusted to have been BOTH sustainably and organically produced? Many times, they are. But the two terms are not interchangable, as this helpful article from The Sustainable Table shows. (Hat tip to Lawrence London of the soon-to-be launched Permaculture Piedmont NC blog for reminding…