One Local Summer Week 9: Northeast

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Ami grilled up some balsamic marinated eggplant and stacked them with local tomatoes and chevre. She also featured local ingredients in a spinach pasta and a caprese salad.

Melissa made blackberry pancakes from scratch and got to enjoy the smell that filled her house for the rest of the day. Even the syrup was local!

As always, Mama Urchin made a beautiful and impressive meal. This week it was an herb lamb patty plus she made her own dough for a veggie pizza.

Leslie also featured eggplant like Ami but instead opted for a roasted eggplant spread a la The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook. What a great thing to bring to a party to share.

Lexi the Lighthearted Locavore wowed us again with another seafood feast.  She made Grilled Local Swordfish and “Swimming” Tuna Steaks with Creamless Cream Corn, Kohlrabi and Carrot Slaw, and two homemade pies with local ice cream and homemade peach-rasperry compote.  Yum!

In these slow hot days of summer, Erin at veggicurious made two meals for OLS this week - a Summer Bread Salad with a medley of vegetables and feta cheese and a Summer Tortilla Soup with loads of fresh tomatoes. 

And over at The Brooklyn Forager, Kristin joined forces with a friend and created a locavore dinner party for friends.  The menu included watermelon and heirloom tomato salad, grilled baby bok choy in a spicy vinaigrette, Mexican-style corn and Flying Pig pork chops with a peach-chipotle salsa.  Dessert was a mixed berry crumble with freshly picked berries from a recent trip to Vermont.