Our premarket CSA began just this week – perfect timing for One Local Summer. It seems now, more and more, all of our meals are local. If not entirely local, they’re substantially local. What a blessing it is to celebrate real food this way! This week we enjoyed local milk, eggs, bacon, quinoa, lettuce,ham, arugula, collards, spinach, herbs, cheese, butter, onions, shallots, honey, cream, steak, strawberries and loads of other delicious, remarkable foods. There’s another box headed our direction tomorrow along with 10 pints of strawberries to freeze for next winter. What luscious beauty.
One of the best meals we prepared this week was seared steak served with cilantro butter over quinoa. A lettuce salad accompanied it and of course cinnamon honey ice cream with wild apricot sauce. Granted the cinnamon wasn’t local, but the apricot sauce certainly was. We put it up last winter where it’s lingered in our stocked pantry since last July. Have you seen wild apricots? They’re beautiful and tiny. They make a cultivated apricot look gargantuan.
The steak was easy: I heated some pastured bacon grease in a cast iron skillet and seared the steak ever so slightly and topped it with compound butter made from fresh raw cream, shallots and garlic from last year’s market as well as some super-fresh cilantro. We served that with a simple salad and topped it off with that fresh, delicious dessert. The quinoa was presoaked and then cooked in bone broth for a delicious richness.
Animal Foods
- Grass-finished Steak (45 miles)
- Grass-finished Beef Bones (45 miles)
- Pastured Bacon Fat (45 miles)
- Fresh, Raw Butter (45 miles)
- Pastured Egg Yolk (45 miles)
- Fresh, Raw Cream (45 miles)
- Fresh, Raw Milk (45 miles)
- Raw Wildflower Honey (250 miles)
Plant Foods
- Lettuce (50 miles)
- Cilantro (50 miles)
- Last Season’s Shallots (45 miles)
- Last Season’s Garlic (8 miles)
- Last Season’s Apricots (50 miles)
- Quinoa (150 miles)
Where did your food come from this week? Any special goodies? Still supping on late spring’s bounty of strawberries and greens?
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