Daily Dinner

Salmon croquettes with diced beet greens & thyme.

Roasted beets and potatoes.

Daily Harvest

Daily Harvest

These potatoes threw themselves out of the ground! They were just kind of bubbled up next to a little potato plant volunteer. And on just the day I was planning to make soup.

Daily Harvest

Daily Dinner

Daily Snack

Daily Harvest

Daily Dinner

Tonight's dinner comes out of the garden except for the lamb from the farmer's market.

I was reading a blog by a small scale meat farmer:

http://www.honestmeat.com/honest_meat/

It really reinforced for me that even meat labeled "free range" in the grocery store doesn't mean that the animals can walk around or live like animals. There isn't really anything in the grocery store that can let you know about the animals husbandry practices of the farms where the animals are raised and the subsequent effect on the land.

After reading Omnivore's Dilemma I realized that it was possible to raise animals in a positive way (pasture, pasture, pasture) but that you have to be really selective and attentive in your meat choices. Both Omnivore's Dilemma and Honest Meat made me feel confident about our choices at the farmer's market.

Daily Dinner

Souffle with eggs from the yard and dried tomatoes from summer, yard potatoes with yard rosemary, the salad has radishes, cliantro & arugula from the yard. The bread has flour ground at Rosalie's house. We ate with cousins Anne & Grant. Good folks!!

Daily Harvest

What could be nicer than coming home after work and digging potatoes with the help of Dr. Wanda? Hidden among the potatoes I found ancient gigantic radishes. They had actually become rather mild and tasty, like daikon.