Dark Days Eat Local Challenge - Week 2

This meal featured an onion and potato frittata, made with local everything except salt and pepper. The onions we bought in bulk from the Downtown Des Moines Farmer's Market in October. We purposefully went at the end of the market and asked for a deal on a bushel of onions, which I believe we got for $24. The potatoes were from our CSA, the eggs and milk from a local dairy. It was truly scrumptious and will definitely make an appearance at our table again soon.


We also had zero mile sweet potatoes from our own garden. This was our first try growing sweet potatoes and they tasted fabulous roasted with a drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper. We'll need to work on our growing technique, as the potatoes were long, but too thin. I think it was due to a combination of late planting and crowded conditions.


Also on the plate are homemade dill pickles. We bought the cucumbers from a woman who advertised on Craig's List. We enjoyed the trip out to her garden and plan to buy our pickling cukes from her again next year. We had garlic from our CSA and grew our own dill. This was our first try at making dill pickles, save for the summer we got married. That attempt, which ended up limp and, frankly, yucky, is best forgotten!

Last fall we harvested and processed acorns from a nearby park into acorn meal. My youngest daughter used our favorite corn meal muffin recipe and simply replaced the whole wheat flour with acorn meal.

The muffins were fantastic!
Especially when served with homemade apricot jam and local butter.

I forgot to take a picture of our dessert of apple pie, made with local apples and flour.