One Local Summer - Week of 7/8/2007
Roast Chicken with Rosemary - Our own chicken, butchered on Sunday (0 mi.), roasted with butter (local-ish, 168 mi.... maybe?) and fresh rosemary from our herb garden (0 mi.), with salt and pepper (not local)
Roasted Beets - Beets from a Ross Co. farmer (20-30 mi.), roasted in their skins, then peeled, sliced and tossed with our localish butter and salt
Blanched Green Beans - Green and purple pod beans from our garden (0 mi.), blanched in salted water. These beans start out looking like this:
The purple color (somewhat disappointingly) fades with cooking. They end up a shade darker than the other beans but definitely green.
This was a very simple dinner, but satisfying. The chicken was really good, although I couldn't bring myself to eat the skin. (I spent a lot of time trying to pluck all the @#$%! pinfeathers out - so much that most of the following day and night I was haunted by thoughts of pinfeathers. I still didn't get them all, either. I'm forecasting a lot of skinless chickens in our future.) One interesting note which I forgot to document with a photo: The dark meat was very dark indeed.
Labels: local food, ols
posted by ~Lori @ 7/11/2007 04:37:00 PM
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My wife rules.
I actually preferred the white meat to the dark meat this time - a reverse of my usual tastes. The dark meat wasn't bad, but it was a bit tougher.
The beets and beans were both very good too.
look what exercise does to those leg muscles! :) We ended up skinning our ducks this year. We missed the perfect time to pluck them.
Looks really yummy. Way to go!
Yum! Looks good to me. I would say that yes, your wife rules. We love beets in our house, too. My daughter loves to add the butter herself. I never thought of eating them with butter until she tried it.
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