A no-fuss dinner for the boys (+ herb roasted new potatoes)
When my husband informed me that his younger brother and one of his best friends would be hanging out at our place this weekend, I knew that dinner would be pretty easy to plan. With all this testosterone in our small condo, a dinner featuring some sort of salted meat seemed to be in order (with some vegetables on the side, of course). What better way to get three men to appreciate local foods?
My second One Local Summer Meal required very little other than simple assembly and good ingredients. Pictured here is our meal: Italian Sausage from Smith Meadows Farm; a simple salad with lettuce and veggies from my garden, D & S Farms, and Sunnyside Farm and Orchards; and some roasted new potatoes using potatoes from Sunnyside Farm and herbs from my garden. In this post you can see the distances travelled for each ingredient, as well as the recipe for the roasted potatoes.
Ingredients:
- Sweet Italian Sausage: Smith Meadows Farm, 72 miles
- Arugula: my garden, 0 miles
- lettuce: D & S Farms, 38 miles
- ugly tomatoes: D & S Farms, 38 miles
- scallions: Sunnyside Farm & Orchard, 71 miles
- garlic: Sunnyside Farm & Orchard, 71 miles
- new potatoes: Sunnyside Farm & Orchard, 71 miles
- rosemary: my garden, 0 miles
- oregano: my garden, 0 miles
- ramp mustard: Bigg Riggs Farm, 99 miles
Not Local: olive oil, salt, pepper, vinegar
And now, a confession: we ate English peas that I purchased from the Del Ray market on Saturday. I had so many questions about the peas themselves that I totally missed the vendor's name. I'll take a leap of faith that they were from within 100 miles of here, but will confirm next weekend when I return to the market.
