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.<\/p>\n
For dinner this evening we grilled\u00a0pork chops\u00a0with a side of spinach and mushrooms as well as a side salad. The meal was\u00a0delicious\u00a0and as we were discussing events of the day and\u00a0upcoming\u00a0week I realized something.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
We also signed up for a Community Shares Farm (CSA) this season. Is is called Care of The Earth Community Farm<\/a>. We get about half a bushel of\u00a0vegetables\u00a0every other week. We spent an hour or so yesterday making salad dressing. I made some\u00a0Italian\u00a0 and my wife made two kinds, a poppyseed dressing and a\u00a0Blackberry\u00a0vinaigrette; The blackberries came from a patch in our yard).<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u00a0pork chops\u00a0with a side of spinach and mushrooms as … Continue reading