Monthly Archives: October 2008

ELC Day 26: Salad

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 26, 2008
I’ve saved some choice ingredients for our final week of the Eat Local Challenge, and the change in seasons means we’ll be getting a little variety in our diet. Breakfast was my usual goat milk & honey muffins, chock full of toasted pecans. Lunch was tomato and arugula sandwiches. Dinner was this tasty salad, made [...]
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Earth Day Update

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 25, 2008
“Earth Day was six months ago on April 22″:http://gulfcoastlocalfood.org/2008/04/earth-day-top-seven-actions.html. I made a note to myself at the time to revisit my Earth Day resolutions six months later, so here we are. * **Be politically active on environmental issues: C.** I’ve certainly done some things, and have signed a lot of petitions. However, I haven’t written [...]
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ELC Day 25: Citrus!

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 25, 2008
Aside from persimmons, there has been no fruit available here. There were satsumas at the market last Saturday, but I paid for mine and, much to my frustration, left them on the table. Today there were satsumas, tangerines, and kumquats. In addition to the citrus, also at today’s market were: baked goods, candy, cucumbers, eggs, [...]
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ELC Day 24: Popovers and a Pestilence of Squirrels

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 24, 2008
My menu has been rather monotonous, so I won’t bore you with details. I’ve been baking a lot – sometimes twice a day – and one new recipe I tried was for popovers. If you’ve never made them (I hadn’t), they’re very easy, tasty, and fun. They’re made with an egg batter, similar to a [...]
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ELC Day 18: Reality Sets In

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 18, 2008
When I decided to take this challenge, part of my driving interest was to see how feasible it would be for the average person, with an average income, to eat locally. I anticipated I would do more driving than in a typical month, but I figured my budget could probably absorb it. However, here we [...]
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ELC Day 17: Reruns

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 17, 2008
Creativity was on the back burner today, with my daughter requesting more pancakes for breakfast, and another round of shrimp po’boys and sweet potato chips for dinner, with the addition of a serving of green beans from our garden. Blanched, with a little salt and pepper, they were fresh, tender, and delectable. The morning’s trip [...]
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ELC Day 16: Disappointment

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 16, 2008
After our success yesterday with dinner, and faced with a dwindling selection of vegetables in the fridge, I decided to make speckled limas, roasted turnips, and braised turnip greens for tonight’s meal. I suppose after so many good meals it shouldn’t be a surprise to have one finally turn out bland, bitter, and unappetizing. The [...]
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ELC Day 15: Milk, Finally, and a Surprisingly Good Stew

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 15, 2008
At long last I was able to pick up some goat milk today. As you might imagine, multiple people (including my husband) have raised their eyebrows at the prospect of drinking goat milk. If you’ve ever had fresh goat cheese, then you’re familiar with the tang you’ll find in goat milk. In the milk it’s [...]
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ELC Day 14: Sandwiches Again

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 14, 2008
I realized at dinner that I’ve been eating a lot of sandwiches. But I’m OK with that, since a sandwich is a versatile meal, with enough variations to keep a picky eater happy indefinitely. Breakfast was (again) muffins with blackberry jelly. Lunch was a fried egg sandwich with arugula. You must try this; it’s simple [...]
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ELC Day 13: Summer Lingers

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 13, 2008
Breakfast: more of my muffins topped with local honey. Lunch: Swiss cheese from Sweet Home Farm, homemade bread, and blackberry jelly. Dinner: sliced tomatoes, arugula, and Sweet Home’s Jubilee cheese on my bread, and a couple of sauteed zucchini. An outstanding sandwich.
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