The Recipe of the Week is up. (Link to a second recipe, Roasted Garlic and Green Pea Pasta Sauce, also included.)
The Recipe of the Week is up. (Link to a second recipe, Roasted Garlic and Green Pea Pasta Sauce, also included.)
Just a couple of notes for today… First, I have been remiss in mentioning a few bloggers who have joined our challenge. A hearty welcome and a salute of our forks to Greenscraps, RichMoments, and Oregon Sunshine! Second, with one week until Memorial Day weekend, I’ve decided to come up with a casual posting schedule that I will do my best to follow. Here’s what it will look like: Monday: Recipe of the Week, mention any new resources Tuesday: Challenge roundup from the previous week (Sunday – Saturday) Wednesday: Links to articles or book reviews Thursday: Events or sites of interest Friday: Open posting of links, polls, checking in with sidebar links, etc. Weekend: Will probably take a break from posting and prepare new posts for the upcoming week Finally, once in a while when I load this blog, there is no link at the bottom for previous posts....
On Thursday, May 22nd, the Nutrition Food Management class at OSU will be presenting “A Taste of the Valley” at Pangea Restaurant in the Memorial Union on campus. The students have designed their own menu featuring local, fresh, organic ingredients from around the valley. They invite you to support sustainability! The event will run from 10:30 am to 3:00 pm. Offerings from the menu include a salmon burger, penne with chicken and spring vegetables, quiche, a turkey cranberry arugula sandwich, a spinach and strawberry salad with goat cheese, and more! They will also offer strawberry lemonade and a chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich. photo: CB Photo
The weather is about to get hot, which obviously means that our thoughts must now turn to ice cream. Them’s the rules. I have noticed that people seem to be very divided — and adamant — about their favorite local ice cream. Click here to take the poll: which brand of local ice cream do you prefer?
I have declared today to be Reminder Day! • This Thursday, May 15, there is a lecture at OSU called “Eating Good in the Neighborhood: The Medical and Moral History of Dietary Localism” featuring speaker Steven Shapin from Harvard University. It’s at 7pm at the LaSells Stewart Center, C&E Auditorium. You can read the media release here. (Okay, that’s not so much a “reminder”, since I didn’t actually post about it in the first place — but I did have it on the calendar, which I did mention!) • By the way, don’t forget about our nifty 30 Boxes calendar, linked over there at the top of the sidebar. • On Friday, May 16, the Farms Feed Everyone benefit dinner is taking place at the First United Methodist Church in Corvallis. Check the calendar for a link. Deadline to RSVP is TODAY. • Finally, I’d really love to have some more participants in...
Check out Eat Wild Oregon – “the number one site for grass-fed food and facts”. Site includes information about the benefits of raising animals on pasture and links to local suppliers. They also have an Eat Wild Oregon Google Map that lets you find farms near you.
On May 16th from 6pm-8pm, there will be a benefit dinner held at the First United Methodist Church Community Center in Corvallis (1165 NW Monroe). There is a sliding scale donation between $12-$49 and RSVPs are required by May 13th. Call 757-1988, ext. 107, or e-mail thatsmyfarmer@gmail.com. Farms Feed Everyone will be an evening devoted to building our food system equitably. Feast on a local dinner prepared by Intaba Liff-Anderson and graduates of her low-income cooking class while enjoying Creole music by Gumbo, presentations, door prizes and a silent auction. Proceeds will strengthen Interfaith Food and Farms Partnership’s low-income programs: cooking classes, a buying club, a gardening program, and the “That’s My Farmer!” farmers’ market coupon program. Help us bring healthy, local food to all residents of Benton County! Co-sponsors include local faith communities, the Benton County Health Department, Corvallis-Albany Farmers’ Market Association, Corvallis Slow Food, South Corvallis Food...
I have to do another early bird post, because my buddy VM from Harrisburg made two things that sound so wonderful that I just can’t keep them to myself. First, goat cheese and spinach stuffed chicken breast with caramelized shallot sauce — the goat cheese and spinach were from the Corvallis market. This is going to be our recipe of the week next week if she sends it to me in time! (Hint, hint, nudge, nudge.) Second, she made French onion soup grantinee, with onions and green garlic from the Corvallis market. As for me, I have been enjoying the “party in a jar” (goat cheese in olive oil and herbs and lots of other yummy things) from Alsea Acre Alpines. Just slap that on some crackers and I’m all set. In book news… I just finished Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living. I enjoyed it...
I started a calendar over at 30 Boxes where you can see upcoming events. It’s linked at the top of the sidebar as well. If you ever have something to be added to the calendar, please send an e-mail.
The recipe of the week is up.
Whoops… please excuse my little unscheduled absence. Caught a killer cold! Did anyone go to the Corvallis Buy Local First Breakfast? I skipped out so as not to spread my germs too far and wide. A few of our challenge participants have enthusiastically started sharing their finds from the markets and their recipes using local ingredients. Let’s check in: Pat at Cooking from the Market found the first strawberries of the season this weekend at the Albany market. These beautiful little red gems were from Rick Steffens Farm in Silverton and Pat gives us two lovely recipes: spinach salad with strawberries & balsamic vinegar, and panna cotta with caramel & strawberries… if you can keep yourself from just tearing into the plain berries. Good luck with that. The prior week, Pat came home with fresh spinach, eggs from Turpen Farms and thick-sliced smoked bacon from Wood Family Farm. These...
