One Local Summer 2007, Week 10, Zucchini Tart

I can’t believe OLS is over. I didn’t try half of the recipes I intended to try, but the summer isn’t finished and the produce at the farmers’ market is still abundant, so I’m going to keep this thing going on my own blog for a few more weeks. I had no idea what I [...]

One Local Summer 2007, Week 9, Grilling Fool

I’ve finally mastered the grilled boneless chicken breast. I know, you’re saying what’s the big deal? Everybody can grill a chicken breast. Well, no they can’t. I’m somebody and let me tell you I have wasted many a boneless chicken breast in my day. But this time I decided to butterfly the breast to make [...]

Of Bumblebees and One Local Summer-week 8

On Saturday morning, I went out to check on the Pattypan plants that are limping along in the lasagna bed and there were five huge open blossoms…each with a sleeping bumble bee in it. Actually, one blossom had TWO sleeping bumblebees. At first I thought, holy mackerel, these plants are poisonous and are killing the [...]

One Local Summer 2007, Week 7, Grilled Pizza Re-redux

I missed last week’s post, and that was a meal of grilled pizza with non-local cheese, and a bunch of local veggie salads. Last night my boss had a big party at his gorgeous home and I brought along my nearly 100% local grilled pizza. I’m so inventive! I made a ragout of eggplant, onion, [...]

One Local Summer 2007, Week 5, Success and Failure

This weekend is filling up with hefty to-dos, so I decided to get my OLS meal made last night before I escaped out the door of my messy house to the harmony singing group I joined. That was probably a mistake. So was setting about the project without a plan, a recipe or the necessary [...]

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