Summer seems just past the frenetic grow-feed-reproduce peak at this moment and is standing on tiptoe, waiting for that nudge to lean into Fall. What a great time to start a new blog !
Yesterday we hosted a potluck 100 mile party...the main ingredients of your dish was to have come from within a hundred mile radius. There are lots of small farms in the area nowadays, including several CSAs. A neighbor and friend belonging to one ( Tree and Leaf ) gave me two big, gorgeous eggplants, from her latest veggie installment , that sent me over the edge to start this blog. As I gathered the veggies up for the lasagna I was going to make for the party this picture presented itself : the taut, white , rotund eggplants; weighty, tangy tomatoes ; papery-husked garlic, our garden dirt still clinging to the roots; another neighbor's sleek zucchini so fresh they wept at the slightest nick to their skins. And while not local, I used some freshly dried Herbs 'd Provence given to me by a friend who had received it from a friend on the West coast who had GROWN the herbs. I think that qualifies, since she was on the coast , visiting her friend already :) Some basil and rosemary snipped from the garden had to have bugs shaken from it...how fresh is that ? Twin Oaks tofu comes from Louisa, Virginia, which my husband says is about 105 miles away......I included it because that's about as local a tofu that I know of, around here. There are also Shitake mushrooms , log-grown by a nearby farmer of mushrooms, roasted on the big griddle plate with a little sesame oil and garlic; and then layered with the other veggies.
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