Day 12 Local Eating Community Giveback

March 18, 2011

Breakfast

Two Eggs Sunny Up

w/ Aroostook Wheat Toast & Kraut

Lunch

Plain Swallowtail Yogurt

w/ honey

Dinner

Tomato & Basil on Buckwheat Rye Pizza Crust

I love pizza and with a lot of web based work and some projects for the evening it was nice to have a quick dinner !  This was the last of our homemade tomato sauce so no more tomatoes until Olivia's Garden starts selling their Cherry tomatoes that they predict will be ripening up in the middle of April !

Stay tuned for a first hand look into the wonderful operation they have going on at Olivia's up in New Gloucester, if all goes as planned Ill be touring the greenhouses sometime next week !

Day 123 LocalrootZ Project (May 05,2010)

Breakfast

Plain Swallowtail Yogurt

w/ honey

Lunch
Maine Sea Biscuits

Dinner 

Spring Green Salad

 w/ fermented slaw

Baked Italian Style Haddock

w/ Spinach

Poverty Hill Farmhouse Cider

Today I replicated last weeks dinner of Italian style parm... starting with cornmeal and herb dusted haddock that pan fried in Caldwell Farm butter and sunflower oil.  That gets topped with a sauce concocted of Snell Farms green garlic onion, Olivia's Garden Cherry Tomatoes as well as the key ingredient which is lovage from Thirty Acre.  Lovage has a very celery like taste but when added to the sauce it opens into a more complex array of garden style veggies making it perfect for the early spring when resources are low ! After the sauce is laid, I grate a nice ball of Swallowtail Mozzarella and Ragged Island Romano cheeses on top and bake for about a half hour.  I like to serve it over a bed of fresh Rippling Waters Farm spinach to give it a little crunch and texture.  I was very pleased with the results the second time around... especially since it was shared with Cassi's mom Debbie and her other half, Rick.  They seemed to enjoy the dinner and were curious about the source of some of the ingredients as well as the preparation.  My favorite part of cooking dinner for friends and family is the act of inspiring people to cook more... and based on how the conversation dipped into making more time to cook a priority Id say we were successful at inspiring ! Any how it was a very pleasant meal and our attempt at a Mother's Day celebration.  A bit early I know but we have a wedding in Gloucester, MA this weekend and will be staying along the coast of Rockport leaving us many miles away on the actual date.

Transportation Today

Work Commute : 18 miles bicycle

 

Day 005 LocalrootZ Project (January 05, 2010)

Breakfast

2 Eggs Sunnyside up

over Root Hash

(Mixed Potatoes,Parsnips,Celeriac Root, Onion & Garlic)

side of Fermented Carrots

 Lunch

Smith's Farm Maple Yogurt

Raw Carrots

Dinner

(pictured below)

Italian Fish Saute

Cocktail Tomatoes, Basil and Cusk

served over pea shoots

w/ cream sauce

Glass of Bartlett's Coastal White Wine

 Dessert

Baked Cranberry Apple w/ Oats

topped w/ Maple Ice Cream

 

What a wonderful dinner... Ok here is the rundown of where the ingredients were sourced, because if you are paying attention your probably saying cocktail tomatoes in Maine ? in January ?

Well yes... there is a wonderful little hydroponic greenhouse in New Gloucester that supplied not only the tomatoes but also the basil and pea shoots !  More on Olivia's in the future.... then we added to the mix a nice piece of cusk topped with leftover cream sauce from the last night and there you go... another classy meal that Cassi and I had never created before !

Transportation Today

Work Commute : 15 miles Bicycle

Errands : 3 miles Walking