Dark Days Eat Local - Week 3

This week's local meal was a simple hamburger and fries.
The beef is from a small, local producer and has a flavor that's out of this world.
Michael and I always used to use a package of Lipton Onion Soup mix to flavor our hamburgers, but we've discovered that adding onion and garlic powder, salt and pepper, makes the burgers even more flavorful than the mix.
We sliced up our local onions and homemade dill pickles to top the burgers. The buns were from a local bakery.


We used our CSA potatoes to make oven fries: just a drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper and 20 or so minutes in a 425 degrees and they're done. There's just no comparison with prefrozen, prepackaged fries. Plus, have you ever read the ingredients? Ugh!

Dessert was leftover pie.
I forgot to take pictures, but the apples and butter in the apple pie were local, as was the flour for the crust. The pumpkin pie featured our own home-grown squash.
A simple meal, but oh, so satisfying!