Happy Mothers Day to my wife and all the other mothers out there. I hope you all had a relaxing day and were able to recharge.
For dinner this evening we grilled pork chops with a side of spinach and mushrooms as well as a side salad. The meal was delicious and as we were discussing events of the day and upcoming week I realized something.
All the food we ate was locally grown! With a co-worker, we purchased half a pig from the local university, We ended up with 45 pounds of meat for roughly $3 a pound.
We also signed up for a Community Shares Farm (CSA) this season. Is is called Care of The Earth Community Farm. We get about half a bushel of vegetables every other week. We spent an hour or so yesterday making salad dressing. I made some Italian and my wife made two kinds, a poppyseed dressing and a Blackberry vinaigrette; The blackberries came from a patch in our yard).
So for those keeping track the store bough items in our meal this evening were: mushrooms, olives, and croutons. We did use some raspberry chipotle marinade on the pork chops.