Dinner Menu:
Sage Garlic Slow Cooked Whole Chicken (Don & Laurel's, Seattle Youth Garden Works, Stokesberry Sustainable Farm)
Braised Napa Cabbage with Garlic (Oxbow Farms, Seattle Youth Garden Works)
Roasted Cauliflower, Broccoli Flowers and Garlic (Don and Laurel's, Seattle Youth Garden Works)
I just realized we ate kind of a lot of garlic tonight for dinner. I suppose this is good, considering we're planning our first ever camping trip as a family of four for this weekend. Or as a family, period. We've never gone camping with little kids. We might be crazy. But apparently garlic helps ward of bugs and mosquitoes. So we'll at least be garlic-smelling crazy people, camping with our small children.
I slow cooked my whole chicken with sage and garlic overnight, picked it clean today and the carcass is now simmering away in a crockpot full of water, brewing a beautiful broth. This is what you do when you spend $24 on a single, pasture-raised organic chicken from a small scale farmer at the farmer's market. You slow cook it, shred it, use the meat for 2-3 meals and make enough stock for 2 more. You use the $24 chicken for 5-6 meals, which actually makes it financially reasonable. And delicious. And sustainable, local, ethically raised and ethically slaughtered.
The roasted cauliflower, broccoli flowers and garlic were absolutely delicious. Don and Laurel gave me a beautiful head of cauliflower yesterday and roasting it, even though it was sort of warm today, just seemed like the only proper thing to do. I can generally take or leave cauliflower from the store... but this was pretty amazing stuff. See some cauliflower at the farmer's market? You should totally buy it.
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