To close out the summer, we savored the best of local foods from coast to coast. I’ll write more about our Oregon finds later this week, but for the official last post of One Local Summer I wanted to detail the family barbeque we had this weekend for the toddler’s 2nd birthday.
On the menu:
- Heirloom vegetable crudite with Italian “Little Tree of Sarzano” zucchini, lemon cucumbers, yellow and purple peppers, purple cherokee cherry tomatoes
- Corn chips with fresh peach salsa
- Watermelon gazpacho
- Grilled corn-on-the-cob with South Mountain Creamery butter
- Virginia beef hamburgers (freshly ground by the butcher) on Va.-made buns with Tom’s cave-aged smethe cheese & Amish pickles (PA), Bigg Rigg’s ramp mustard (WV) and Mr. Ugly tomatoes (MD)
- Beverages: Peach Sangria, with Barboursville sparkling wine (VA); Fordham (MD), Dominion (VA) and Dogfish Head (DE) beer.
- Dessert: birthday cake & cupcake from Buzz Bakery.
The produce came from our Potomac Vegetable Farms CSA; Mt. Olympus Farm, Reid’s Orchard and a Northern Neck VA farmer at the McLean market; and Tom the Cheese Guy, D&S Farms and the plant stand at the Del Ray market.
Only non-local ingredients: tortilla chips (though Snyders were from PA), jicama, seltzer, Gulden’s mustard and organic ketchup. One lesson learned – don’t ask a butcher how much beef you’ll need unless you want some giant burgers! But they were oh so very good.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Jill // Sep 2, 2008 at 10:47 am
Sounds delicious! Kisses to the birthday boy.
2 Sylvie, Rappahannock Cook & Kitchen Gardener // Sep 2, 2008 at 9:23 pm
This all sounds great!
So easy to eat well at this time of the year from the local harvest. We had several kinds of tomatoes and peppers, tomatillos, okras, carrots, corn, beets, swiss chard & herbs from the garden – in one form or another. Pork from Belle Meade Farm, and beef from Polyface on the menu. And I also like Barboursville sparkling a lot!
Still looking for cheese and flour though.
Finally – thank you so much by adding my b;og to your Eat(in) Local blog roll, Colleen.
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// Sep 3, 2008 at 11:05 pm
@ Jill – Thanks! Of course it would’ve been better had you been here.
@ Sylvie – One of these days I hope to actually eat some Polyface meat, considering how close they are to us! As for cheese, you can’t be too far from Everona? Or even a western Maryland one like Firefly?
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