Here’s what we’ve been eating around here:
Top, L-R: Local spicy Italian sausage and home-canned tomato sauce (in pan & on spaghetti), homemade chicken stock
Middle, L-R: Chicken sausage hash, with sausage from MA, local purple and fingerling potatoes and summer-frozen squash and peppers
Bottom, L-R: Pancakes with regional butter and sauce from summer-frozen berries, spit-roasted, free-range, local chicken
I’m not focusing on one single meal this time around, as once again, many of our ingredients were local in every meal, and this time of year, since I’m out of onions, it’s harder to come by anything TOTALLY local, since I love me my onions.
I will highlight that nice-looking pasta sauce, though. The onion/pepper mixture that I sizzled in the fat from browning the sausage was totally local, and chopped and frozen this summer, which really was handy. SO, the only thing in that sauce that wasn’t from within 15 miles of my house was the garlic, but that’s from NH. I guess that makes the pasta sauce this week’s winner!
I’m looking forward to seeing some green on my lawn and in my fridge sometime soon!
Amen, sister! I am so ready for green, I’d kiss a frog.
Those are some nice-looking local eats. You’ve made Dark Days proud.
[...] Kim, who so nicely wrote the last East recap, definitely made Dark Days proud this time around. That’s a pretty amazing assortment of local meals and foods considering it’s early March in New England. The pasta sounds delicious, any chance we can get a recipe? And Kim? I’m pretty sure none of us are holding your non-local onions against you. I definitely couldn’t survive without onions and the local ones I picked up the other day are definitely a little worse for wear now that we’re in March rather than December. [...]
Beautiful! Really beautiful. Here in Northern California, it’s been a cake walk. I’m always so impressed at the stunning food you and some of your colder Dark Days cohorts turn out. Honestly, after seeing all the food people make for this challenge, I can’t figure out why we aren’t all eating local or mostly local. Bravo.
I LOVE that al fresco sausage – yum! We’d been eating it for a while when I finally looked at the back of the package and found it was Chelsea MA – which is local to where we are in Maine. So, yay! One food we could continue enjoying with our mostly local diet
. Good stuff 
Ditto on the wishing for green. I guess the closest we’ll come anytime soon, though, are the eggs from our Araucuna chicken
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Thanks for stopping by and keeping me inspired, ladies! This has certainly been a long, hard winter.
Soon, though, soon….