Good 4 U Gastronomy: A Month of Eating Local

September 29, 2013

A Month of Eating Local

Did you try to eat local in September?

It's hard. I tried.

I buy a lot of my produce directly from the Farmers and I still found a large percentage of my food is not local because some of it does not grow here. Here's how I did. It was great fun.

Local Heirloom Tomato

Local tomato, local cream, local frozen peas

Local tomato, local kale from Terra Verde Garden

Local carrots from Lunaria Farm and Alm Hill Farm

Local beans from Terra Verde Garden

The prettiest pears I've ever seen from BelleWood Acres

Friend's backyard plums

to make my grandma Gertrude's Pflaumenkuchen (Plum Cake)

and used the leftover plums to cook up local Brussels Sprouts from Terra Verde Garden and BelleWood Apples

Washington apples, local kale, carrots from Sunseed Farm

for juicing to make up for all the ancient Einkorn wheat that I'm eating lately

the hens who lay the eggs that I eat really like the leftover fiber from my juicing, so they are eating local too

I juice ginger that has been in my freezer since last year, local from Terra Verde Garden

Nectarines from the Okanogan Valley in Eastern Washington in a skillet cake

local eggs, local butter

Ricotta cheesecake made with local eggs

cooked emmer (farro) berries from Bluebird Grain Farms in Winthrop, Washington, local cherry tomatoes, local basil

Local pizza made by . . .

. . . local guy Russ of Gusto Pizza

lunch by local food truck JTs Smokin BBQ made from local pork from Farmer Ben's

JTs baked beans are the best I've ever had in my entire life. These are destination baked beans. If you love BBQ and baked beans, find this guy's truck (links below) and drive there for lunch. Call me, I'll join you.

If you have never bought meat directly from a farmer, Jessica and Ben make it really easy and friendly in their farm store. It's lovely, they are lovely and they treat their animals with respect and gratitude.