One Local Summer: Southern, Week 9

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Coasting into the home stretch of summer, with sweet corn, tomatoes, melon and peaches as far as the eye can see .... here’s what our Southern cooks whipped up this past week.

Tennessee

Kristina the Tennessee Locavore feasted on tomatoes and beans galore, including dinner of shelley beans, collard greens with local bacon and corn bread made with local corn meal, buttermilk, and some cracklins we made from local lard.

Melissa of Bridgman Pottery used up quite a few languishing vegetables in her meals this week, including a baked eggplant-tomato-feta dish and a crustless cherry tomato and feta cobbler.

Sarah at A Girl Named Go checks in with another meal on the road, this time from Barbara Kingsolver’s Harvest Table restaurant in Meadowview, VA.

District of Columbia

Erin of New at the Market made “eggs in the 10th circle of hell,” and you’ll just have to click over to her blog for the story.

Virginia

Carolyn of Walnut Spinney is back with fresh blackberries and homemade honey wafers, a simple dessert to follow an easy dinner of tomato-mozzarella salad and grilled squash, onions and potatoes.

Jasmine of Knitting 40 Shades of Green made gazpacho and a carrot and apple salad with some of Bigg Riggs early apples. (Does anyone else start to hyperventilate when apples turn up next to the peaches on the market tables? Maybe it’s just me.)

Nancy of Learning As I Go whipped up gazpacho with the ingredients on hand after returning from a family trip to the beach.

Here at FoodieTots, we had a rainy day supper of cantaloupe soup with ham and basil, buffalo steak, and Swiss chard; earlier in the week we enjoyed all-local squash blossom succotash crepes. (I’m sure OLS participants are well aware that it’s National Farmers Market Week this week, but if you’ve got kids, I’m hosting a kids at market photo contest this week.)

- Colleen