Keeping It Local

Charcutepalooza February: Bacon

February 15, 2011 |

Frying homemade bacon on Tampa Bay

Well this month’s challenge certainly did not manifest itself as planned. February’s project was all about the salt cure. We could make either bacon, or the slightly more complicated pancetta. Earlier in the month I had the opportunity to procure some Ossabaw pork belly and as I read the challenge it was already in my [...]

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Farmers’ Market & the First Butt of the Football Season

September 11, 2010 |
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Preparing to Do Interesting Things

June 24, 2010 |

We are spending some much time prepping to do things worth writing about that I haven’t had time to write about it. So a short summary would be: Monday Ate lunch at The Grit Picked up our Total Pork Program Meat CSA from MoonShine at Farm255 Dinner was a noodle stir-fry using the purple broccoli [...]

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Locally Grown Food & A Quick Snack

June 19, 2010 |

Slipped up already.  I skipped yesterday’s post, but yesterday was a really weird day and I would rather just move on. Besides I told myself I would not let this blog make me feel guilty, I do that enough as it is.  So backing it up to Thursday….. For lunch I wanted to use up [...]

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Cherries & Forgotten Berries

June 16, 2010 |

Yesterday was Tuesday. And what do we do on Tuesdays? Yes that’s right! Pick up our veggie CSA from Roots Farm.  When we arrived the veggies were on display in their usual tantalizing manner and we quickly scan the list of what was included in this week’s half-share.  First on the list, berries!  Oh they [...]

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Farmers’ Market and the 24 Heures du Mans

June 13, 2010 |

As I drink my morning coffee, we still have 6 1/2 hours of the 24 Heures du Mans left to watch.  We need to get  this race watched because this afternoon there is a F1 race airing from Montreal.  Yesterday, we had to get up and go.  We wanted to go to the Athens Farmers’ [...]

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No Shower, Bok Choy, Spilled Milk & and Chana Masala

October 22, 2009 |

So today did not start out swimmingly.  I woke up with Darren telling me that I should get a bottle of water if I was going to brush my teeth.  Our water turns brown from time-to-time.  They say it’s because the city is flushing the pipes, but I have never seen the water this dark [...]

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A new recipe app, Salsa Verde, and a win for the Dawgs

October 18, 2009 |

I spent the majority of yesterday, planning my menu for the week. It has been a few weeks since I had made a solid menu and shopping list, instead just picking up things as I thought of them. I have many vegetables from Athens Locally Grown that were aging away in my fridge. In my [...]

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A Relaxing Saturday

August 30, 2009 |

Got up late so we had to head straight to the Athens Farmer’s Market. Having finished our shopping,  we stopped at Big City Bread Cafe for brunch. I ordered the Burgundy Mushroom Quiche and Darren had the Meat Omelette, containing soprasetta, arugala & olives. After putting away our bounty from the market, I began braising [...]

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Picked up our CSA veggies

August 8, 2008 |

Got some okra, gonna make some gumbo. Uhmm, dat good.

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