Adventures in Local Food VII: An August Harvest

Oh yeeeeeah ... it's Thursday and Anita has delivered the box filled with corn, lettuce (not the boring heads of lettuce in a bag you buy at the grocery), tomatoes (five different varieties, if I've identified them correctly), green peppers, cucumbers, and eight-ball (round) zucchini. It's August in Indiana. It just doesn't get any better than this. With the exception of popcorn and chocolate, I've managed to eat most of my meals produced on Indiana soil in recent weeks.

I concede that when you decide to eat what's in season and available, you have to get creative. Let's take the cabbage that I've been working through. It was plentiful at the Homestead Growers farm, I saw it (and I still need to talk about that visit to the farm on the blog ...) Four days ... eight meals later ... six of those leftovers. But, I am the queen of leftovers, I can't throw out anything. Home-made cabbage rolls (with home-canned tomato sauce from 2006, onions and garlic, also raisins, but they probably came from California) and cabbage soup, with lots of other vegetables, kept me going for nearly a week!

As for dinner tonight? Corn on the cob and salad!