dinner - seared fresh scallops, sauteed asparagus, zucchini on a bed of spinach & arugula -sigh
Last 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'?
Perhaps you should consider having a Friday-night-only Chez Susan restaurant for the locals? Your food always looks so good!
ReplyDeleteHow crazy is that when you can spit in the ocean but couldn't buy local seafood. That would be like saying it's hard to get corn here in KC.
ReplyDeleteThose scallops look awesome by the way.
I have all the ingredients except apparatus, so that's dinner for me tonight.
ReplyDeleteJohn it's so easy and delish !!
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Dang it, iPad auto- correction: asparagus!
ReplyDeleteThat looks amazing! Love the local produce - and your cowboy.
ReplyDeleteHiya MS - gotta feed that worker guy some heart healthy chow !! Shammy I thought you'd like the sear on those scallops - pretty darn perfect ;-)
ReplyDeletei hear you, sue. luckily we can still get some pretty killer seafood here on the south shore; but then again, our neighbour is a fisherman! i loved john's comment about apparatus - i thought he was talking about the drill bits and hammer in pic # one! i absolutely adore that shot - the location looks just like somewhere i've eaten so many meals, but they've rarely looked so delicious!
ReplyDeletecheers, et bonne fin de semaine - n
Oh YUM!! Curiousity satisfied. Husband and I first moved to teach in a small irrigated country town in our twenties. The main livelihood was the growing of, and export of oranges,but we could not get find oranges anywhere in the shops.
ReplyDelete"Oh we just assume everyone either has an orange block or knows someone who does!" someone shrugged.
Never did befriend many "blockies" (we were not born and bred in the town and not of the same social set) but there were roadside stalls out of town that were friendly and obliging.
Country towns eh!
we're starving!
ReplyDeleteLove and snorts
Benny & Lily
nothing sets off a plate of scallops like drill bits! what a great meal. even better you had the Prince AND young burt reynolds in tight neoprene killing the hell out of fetal alcohol syndrome buggerin' inbreds. heaven. LOL
ReplyDeleteFarmer's markets are blossoming around here. But alas, no scallops grow here.
ReplyDeleteI <3 chickory. She's funny.
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