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Dark Days: Pork Chops

Posted in Cooking, Dark Days Eat Local Challenge, eat local on February 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »

This week’s meal was an easy one, and a great example of freezer shopping.  
I walked down cellar Sunday morning and took these pork chops out of our freezer – shopping done!
We grilled the boneless chops (we grill year round, snow be damned) and roasted some red potatoes from Maine.  I could have easily added [...]

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Dark Days (late?): Tortilla Soup

Posted in Cooking, Dark Days Eat Local Challenge, Dogs, Local Food, Pantry Raid on February 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Our dinner for this week is a hybrid of local, frozen food and some pantry staples: tortilla soup.

First, the local stuff: chicken, chicken stock, frozen summer corn, onions, Vermont cheese
From the pantry: one can of black beans, tortilla chips, and this soup mix (that’s right, I said soup mix):

I LOVE this soup mix.  It has [...]

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Dark Days: Between Sniffles

Posted in Cooking, Dark Days Eat Local Challenge, Local Food, eat local, seasonal eating on February 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I’ve got the cold that’s been swirling around school (just in time for the weekend!).  But, at least I’ve got some yummy food, since this is definitely the “stuff it” kind of cold (vs. the “starve it”).  
Surprise!  No beef in this week’s meal.  AND, it didn’t take four hours to prepare!
I roasted the green [...]

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Convenience Store

Posted in Around the Lakes Region, Food Adventures, For Fun, Local Food, New Hampshire, eat local on February 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Fresh eggs.  Self-serve (write your name in the log and deposit cash in the box).
Make your own change.  
Open 24-hours.

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So, I have been cooking, but…

Posted in Around the Lakes Region, Dogs, New Hampshire on February 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I just haven’t put anything up here. I missed this week’s Dark Days update, but I already have stuff in the works for the next couple of weeks.
Meanwhile, here’s how we’ve been spending our weekends. Conditions have been fabulous for snowshoeing this year, and it wears the little bugger out!
 
 
 

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