One Local Summer, Southern: Week 7

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

It’s a light week for reports from the Southern region, but tomatoes are finally ripening across the region and took a starring role in many of this week’s dishes:

Tennessee

Kristina the Tennessee Locavore shares a creative way to use up an assortment of veggies—e.g. cabbage, carrots, kohlrabi, zucchini—with Okonomiyaki, or Japanese pizza.

Melissa of Bridgman Pottery made a delicious meal by accident when a lack of bread and mayonnaise led to a BLT salad.

Sarah at A Girl Named Go shares her reflections on the film Food Inc. and gardening as a subversive act, and a recipe for a vegetable-stuffed tomato that solved the dilemma of what to eat after watching the film.

District of Columbia

Erin of New at the Market made a local pasta with broccoli, garlic and goat cheese.

Virginia

Nancy of Learning As I Go cooked up a savory tomato tart—with a clever substitute for celery, which is hard to find locally grown—fresh corn on the cob, and greens tossed with a honey-mustard vinaigrette (local mustard, local vinegar, local honey).

Sylvie the Rappahannock Cook & Kitchen Gardener savors the lingering greens, thanks to our cooler than usual start to summer, in her garden and makes a colorful home-grown summer lunch.

Nana Sadie is struggling to use all of her CSA share, but tackled a bunch of basil by making pesto for pasta.

The FoodieTots family took our annual trip to the Pacific Northwest, where we didn’t cook but ate local, healthy fast food and snacked on gobs of farm fresh and vine-plucked berries.