Breakfast and Lunch
Breakfast:
I didn't know we could get Oklahoma grown apples! I was stoked to find these this weekend. I ate this apple sliced with peanut butter.
Lunch:
This weekend I made some veggie patties using black beans, rice, onion, corn, pecans and eggs. I would give you the recipe but really, it's just a combo of those ingredients all mashed together and seasoned with taco seasoning. For lunch I fried one up in a little sunflower oil and served it with arugula and a fried egg. I sprinkled it with a little Manchego and pepper.
We decided to start eating locally in January I was so clueless about the whole thing - I would go to the farmers market expecting all sorts of produce and would come home with a sweet potato. I had little concept of eating seasonally. Eight months later eating as local as possible is very much just a part of our lives. It means two trips a week to the farmers market, shopping at a very small grocery store that carries local produce and lots of prep/cooking time. It means spending real money on real food and at the same time supporting a local economy. But I have to say - it has been worth every effort and every penny.
YUM! Kathleen, you and your eggs on everything!
I would love to eat locally more often. I do grow my own veggies but a few tomatoes and some parsley only gets you so far.
That looks AMAZING. The husband loves veggie patties, but I don't like buying processed food. I will have to try these!!
We have been trying to shift to local food too...it's a hard transition!
Call me a dummy, but how's the weather in your parts? I know it's south-ish, but no local farming year-round, right? You get some snow, yes?
Jason - The weather is still warm but no year round farming. We can get 50F temps in the winter but we can also get ice. For the past couple of years we've had some pretty serious snow and ice.
Check it out: http://jeremyandkathleen.blogspot.com/2009/12/when-it-snows-it-blizzards.html
I knew I'd seen snow on your blog. Haha.
For us right now, I have to say, the money going back into the local economy is the most important reason to buy local. We are lucky where we live in that we can get just about anything we could possibly need from local producers - eggs, yoghurt, cheese, milk, fruit, veggies, soap, chocolate, coffee, tea - and that is great for so many reasons, but my husband is a builder in a region where the industry has almost died in the last 2 years and he never knows from one week to the next whether he'll have work. To me, it just makes sense to put money back into our local economy so that those farmers/producers have money to fix that door/re-roof that shed/install that new window and that in turn is what keeps my husband employed right now.
Kathryn - Yes, I absolutely agree with supporting your local economy. Along with eating locally I also became very aware of where my clothes, makeup and everything else I buy are coming from. You should check out the book Deep Economy if you haven't read it already.
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