Category Archives: Winter Eating Challange
Winter Challange Meal #6
Dark Day Challange Meal #6 This weeks homegrown food is Pea’s, I opened a bag of fresh frozen green Pea’s from the summer and what I can say.. heavenly with fresh local mushrooms. We planted pea’s three times over the past … Continue reading
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Rabbit Tenderloins -DD’s Meal # 5
Well, I am thrilled to say that we are getting just a little bit more light daily now, but its is still very much Dark Days in terms of how it feels with the cold and snow. Here is the menu … Continue reading
Winter Food Challange Meal #4
If you have not gone over to see the amazing meals on the first Dark Days Meal Write ups, I would highly recommend it, the ladies and gents have come up with a wide range of temping dishes To say … Continue reading
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Winter Challange Meal 3
Dark Days Meal 3 Main Course Roast-Goat with horseradish Oven Roasted Veggies -Potato’s/Onion and Carrots Fresh Cherry tomato The offical Zero miles food this week is Goat and the runner up is Spruce tips. Dessert Apple/Pear Butter and Spruce-Rosemary Shortbread … Continue reading
Spruce and Rosemary Shortbread Cookies Recipe
A basic Shortbread Cookie Recipe is a time honored traditon at this time of the year, it is made up normally of butter, Sugar, Flour and Vanilla. Some folks like to use half Flour and half Corn Starch for a … Continue reading
Salt Cured Leg of Lamb
or a kind of “prosciutto d’agnello”. I took two legs of lamb with bone in about a eight pd approx, and made a brine of salt in gallon of water, I added salt till an egg would float, and then I … Continue reading
Winter Food Challange Week 1 an 2
The 4th Dark Days Challange Basic Rules are simple, Make four meals per month out of sustainable, organic, local, ethical food. You can eat any and all local foods from within 150 miles of your home, my extra’s are olive … Continue reading
Winter Eating Challenge
DH and I have taken on the challange of eating one meal per week of made totally of local food, the basic rule is all parts of the meal must be grown/produced from within a 150 miles of where you are … Continue reading
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Just another Day on the Farm 