Well, kids, the time is nigh! I'm ready to jump in to our Eat Local America Challenge - are you? Here's a few local foods I've been ranting about lately:
Oven-roasted potatoes, the small ones, rolled in butter and salt before I put them in a hot oven. Then when they're ready to burst, take them out of the oven, smash them on your plate with more butter, and sprinkle with some fresh herbs (ANYTHING from your garden, or the neighbor's: basil, parsley, chives, cilantro...)
OK, another one:
A roasted pork shoulder from Hidden Stream Farm near Elgin, MN. Slow roasted (oven cooler than with the potatoes), baking in the awesome pineapple ginger salsa from Salsa Lisa in Minneapolis. By slow-roasting the pork, it gets really tender and melty and works great in quesadillas, pulled pork sandwiches (Hey - stop using that corn-syrup filled barbeque sauce! You didn't like it being so sticky, anyways, did you? Experiment with a homemade ketchup based sauce from The Joy of Cooking or The Man of Bam's website). Man-o-man, pork sandwiches are good.
So, in the hours leading up to this Eat Local America Challenge, when you're looking in your fridge and wondering *what the heck am I gonna eat?* - remember this:
Eat Good Food.
Eat it with Friends.
Buy it Locally.
easy-peasy. Oh, just one more thing: ICE CREAM!!! Super yummy ice cream at your fave local food co-op: Castle Rock and Sibby's - both Wisconsin-made (where else?) and absolutely delicious.
Need a movie? Rent King Corn. You'll never want to eat corn syrup again. watch it. I'm serious.
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