Crockpot Curried Lamb Ribs with Fresh Garlic and Sweet Onions (Olsen Farms, Oxbow Farms CSA, farmer's market)
Mixed Braising Greens, Shiitake Mushrooms & Bacon Ends (farmer's market, Sno-Valley Mushrooms, Olsen Farms)
It's here! It's here! The new blog I've been promising everyone! Not that my old blog, My Paleo Crockpot, is all spiffy or *done* or polished by any means, but I decided to tackle a new endeavor for the next three-ish months: cooking our dinner, every night, with only local ingredients I can get from my CSA or the farmer's market.
Here we go!
So it's day one, and I already sort of had to cheat. It's blazing ridiculously hot here in Seattle, and by that I mean it hit 90 degrees today. You would think this wouldn't be a problem, considering I grew up in Nebraska and even thought it would be a good idea to live in Dallas for a summer once, but there's no A/C here. And my small children need to nap in the afternoon.
So no cooking during the day. Period. If it's not made by 8 AM, and it's not going in the microwave to be re-heated, it's not happening that day. So I made my lamb ribs last night in my crockpot, steamed my cauliflower before we went to sleep, and braised my greens while I made breakfast this morning. Then it all went in Pyrex and straight into the fridge until dinnertime.
It counts, right?
It's also day one of my "eat local, be sustainable, yay!" blog, but I was anything but sustainable today. We had to get out of the house in the morning once it started to heat up, and so I loaded up the kids (one of whom was battling a fever/some sort of crud) in the minivan and we drove the long way to one of those big box stores, in search of a stereotypical big box purchase: a toddler water play outdoor table for the kids. And the first place didn't have it, so we went to a Target to see if they did. Nope.
I did manage to buy a new swimsuit for myself since my old one was literally from high school and was too big from being worn too closely to having babies, and this was no small feat considering swimsuit shopping is horrid all by itself, and I had a toddler and a baby in the tiny fitting room with me, asking for snacks every two seconds or trying to pick up discarded tags and eat them, respectively. It's admittedly kind of a "mom swimsuit" but whatever. I'm kind of a mom now.
And then it was almost lunchtime and I was still trying to avoid our hot home, and since big box stores always have A/C cranking, we stopped and I bought my toddler a smoothie from Starbucks and fed my baby some snacks. And then I blasted the A/C the whole way home in the minivan and even took the non-direct route back. I put a whopping 30 miles on my car today, which is a TON of driving for me.
Oops.
We have a saying around here: Sustainability has to be sustainable. And on a super hot day like today, what made eating local food sustainable was to cook it all last night or early this morning, and then microwave it before dinnertime. What made the day reasonable and our home cool enough for afternoon naps was the fact that I didn't cook and we got out for the bulk of the morning. We made it work.
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