dinner - seared fresh scallops, sauteed asparagus, zucchini on a bed of spinach & arugula -sighLast night's
Chez Susan's restaurant fare - simple, easy + delicious. Lightly dressed with a simple lemon (juice & zest), fresh garlic, olive oil, pinch of sugar & grainy Dijon mustard dressing. Yum.
It's a sad and ironic thing that local food is often food that's difficult to come by. Certainly if you shop mostly at the big grocery stores, the
conglomerateness of them means individual stores and managers often have no say in where the food they're selling actually comes from. Thanks to a
resurgence in a buy locally/eat locally philosophy & the demand for food grown or harvested in our own backyard small producers & farmers are finding new ways to bypass the big stores - farmers markets, road side stands and here in our village - trucks in parking lots.
Hooray for trucks in parking lots announcing on hand painted signs leaning on tires "Valley Corn!" - "Local Strawberries" - "Beans, Carrots, Beet Greens" Our little village now has a Saturday bustling farmer's market and for the last few summers we've a weekend "fish truck". Crazy as it is, we live by the sea but good, regular fresh seafood was formerly very hard to come by.
Formerly. A new tradition begun last week here at 29 Black Street is for the Prince to stop by the fish truck Friday morning and in discussion with the fish monger he chooses some fresh seafood goodness to surprise the cook with. I'm lovin' the surprise factor and I've suggested that variety is indeed the spice of life. Last week's dinner was
Sole Almondine and last night's
pre-
Deliverance movie night dinner was seared fresh sea scallops with a heap of veggies. So good ... + so good for us.
A special shout out to
Pam way down, down under who asked just yesterday - so what's cookin'?
