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Dark Days Challenge – Week 5 and Potato Latkes
I thought I'd wet my blogging feet again by posting about the Dark Days Challenge that Laura from Urban Hennery has hosted for the last three years. I'm getting a late start because work has been so...
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Dark Days Challenge – Week 6 – Making Leftover Lamb Doubly Local
This week was filled with all kinds of delicious eating – and unfortunately not much of it was local. I spent a few days up at my parents and while my parents appreciate the virtues of eating local...
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Dark Days Challenge – Week 7 & Eating More Duck Fat
For the first Dark Days meal of 2010, I thought I'd also make sure to get some bonus points by figuring out a way to add some duck fat in it – it's local and I've resolved to eat more of it in 2010!...
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Dark Days Challenge – Week 8 – Eggs in Hell
Recipe here. Sun-dried tomato sausage from Laurel Creek Meats, eggs from a local farm, and a potato onion, garlic, parsley, rosemary and oregano were from our garden. The tomatoes I used were canned...
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Dark Days Challenge – Week 9 – Tough to Find Time for a Purely Local Meal
Time had been short in our house lately and at this time of the year, it takes a decent amount of time to plan a local meal that sounds delicious enough to share. I mean, yes – I could post the...
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Dark Days Challenge – Week 10 – Enough Soup for an Army
This week, I found myself making enough soup to feed an army. I’m normally not quite so enthusiastic with my cooking but between my husband and I, instructions got garbled enough that he soaked my...
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Dark Days Challenge – Week 13 and Discovering Local Elk
We're under the weather in the McPhelps household so last night's meal was a quick and easy one. A few weeks ago, I was delighted to find homemade elk summer sausage at Laurel Creek Meats' Market in...
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Dark Days Challenge – Week 14 – Finally Using My Get Out of Jail Free Card!
I've been putting off this moment for as long as I can but this week I finally gave into temptation and used what I call my "Get Out of Jail Free Card" for my Dark Days post. We made breakfast for...
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Dark Days Challenge – Week 15 – Adding Some Fire & Heat to a Chilly Day
I tend to not cook much with ready made food items. It's not that I'm completely morally opposed to them. Yes – a lot of processed foods are made with far too much salt, fat and GMO ingredients for...
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Dark Days Challenge – Week 19 – Local Marmalade & Why Frying in Duck...
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. ~ Longfellow March has been the dreariest month I've had in a long time, both in a figurative sense and literal. Weather wise,...
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