My favorite things

[Pam in Namur]

I guess I should have actually commented in that last post about what
we're actually eating in my household these days.

Malvitz chickens - I probably roast one every other week, using the
leftovers and carcass for soup (which then provides lunches for the
work week). Grilled cheese - with Washington Island wheat for the
bread and Renards cheese. Potatoes in every form imaginable. (We
bought a 50 pound bag at the end of summer, and a good portion of it
is gone already.) Pasta with fabulous tomato sauce made out of local,
home-canned tomatoes (and pesto, of which the basil and cheese are
local but the oil and pine nuts are not). Veggie/cheese omletes.
Corn chowder. Home made yogurt (Morning Glory milk - here, local
takes precedence over organic). Apples in many forms - apple sauce,
apple slices, apple syrup, apple jelly and, yes, still fresh
Honeycrisps which have been stored in the garage. Hubby eats
Marchant's beef (as a vegetarian slowly working some chicken back into
the diet, I still haven't been able to manage beef). Home made salsa
(w/ non-local chips). Ice cream made from Renard's cream. (True, not
of the low fat variety, but boy is it good.) The onion braids I made
and hung in the basement are doing fabulously well - what a treat to
run downstairs and snip off an onion for cooking!

Yet to be made: things like curried apple soup, hubbard squash soup,
pumpkin soup. I'm looking for a recipe for cream of green bean soup,
since many of my green beans have turned out to be woody. I've not
even begun to use my frozen strawberries and raspberries - I think
I'll have fresh before I get through all of those!

The bottom line is this - it really isn't a sacrifice to eat locally.
It just takes some planning and realistic goal-setting. We are
fortunate to live where we do.
Pam