4th July Local Food Dinner, what are you going to serve for Dinner?

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Permalink Reply by Maggie on June 24, 2009 at 10:10pm

It is winter in Australia so we have lots of green herbs, lettuce, kale, erbett spinach and lots of other greens in the garden.
I still have fresh chillies and lots of garlic.

We live beside an Agricultural High School where I can buy olive oil, olives, chicken, goat, lamb, eggs, wine, goats cheese, veggies and seasonal fruit from the school canteen or once a month barn market.

Here is my local dinner meal

Green Herb and Vegetable Frittata

Greek Salad with lettuce and olives

Sweet Mandarin's

Local red wine.

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Permalink Reply by Maggie on June 27, 2009 at 5:44pm

I just remembered we have some homemade mulberry wine and some plum wine we made a couple of years ago.
I also have all the delicious cucumber, green tomato relishes and gorgeous eggplant chutneys I made in summer.
I might even get some local biodynamic milk and make some soft cheese.
I also have lots of dried lemongrass, herbs and lemon verbena leaves to make teas.
I also have lots o local berries, basil and tomatoes in the freezer.
I reckon we could probably eat for a week from what I have stored at home or have in the garden.

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Permalink Reply by Kate on June 27, 2009 at 6:02pm

Can I come, Maggie?

I can bring some red and yellow cornos capsicums which are still doing amazingly well on one of my bushes, little French radishes which are beaut dipped into an avocado dip.

I have olives a friend gave me and I pickled and some olive oil freshly squeezed at Verdale the day I was there a few weeks ago.

Last week I made pies with feral goat and herbs from my garden and I could make some more if you like.

I could make a yummy lemon pudding from my lemons and am about to start some limoncello brewing. Deb has frangelico ready..... yum. There is one mandarin on my tree..... it is a very young tree..... and the blood oranges aren't rip yet but my mother's navels will be soon.

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Permalink Reply by Maggie on June 27, 2009 at 6:22pm

Sounds good Kate.
Come down Saturday 4th July and I will show you around the Barn market and buy you a bbq lamb sausage, fresh from the paddock!

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Permalink Reply by chris w on June 25, 2009 at 11:52pm

The only things 'in' so far are some rosemary might be pickable, basil was destroyed by hail, lettuce we've been eating so I could serve salad.... snow peas are coming in but I'm eating them right off the plant as soon as they are ready. Half of the pea plants were destroyed by hail. One hot pepper came in but its pretty small still. I guess I won't have much food independence!

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Permalink Reply by Maggie on June 27, 2009 at 5:45pm

Salads good chris, whats in your pantry?

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Permalink Reply by David Brownlee on June 27, 2009 at 10:51pm

Personally I'm going to have grilled salmon.....but....a friend of mine is going down to Biloxi MS so he can play golf and she can gamble....they say there is one night....the fourth of July....when they open up a stretch of about three miles of beach and everybody can legally shoot fireworks out into the water.

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Permalink Reply by Maggie on July 1, 2009 at 2:55am

Hi David,
Salmon sounds good, I looked up Biloxi MS on the map, wow I reckon that would be great.
We are banned from having fireworks here in Aus.
They were not banned when my sons were young and we had great fun in the middle of winter lighting bonfires and letting off crackers. They would spend their whole vacation collecting wood and building a bonfire.
Then they would save their pocket money and collect the fireworks in a shoe box.
Mt Vesuvius was my favorite and the sky rockets.
They were fun family nights, no one got hurt!
I am sure it is more of a health risk sitting inside, eating take away.

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Permalink Reply by Penelope on July 1, 2009 at 7:40am

Hail set some of my plants back too. I've been eating snowpeas as well. Stirfried some with garlic and mushrooms last night. I'm wondering if I"m going to have tomatoes this year or not. . .

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Permalink Reply by sandra anderson on July 1, 2009 at 10:14am

We usually do a huge BBQ with salmon and ribs. But this year a dear friend (who is Vegan) is coming to town! So I'm pulling out all the veggie books and will do a vegan BBQ instead!
Good thing we will have plenty of zucchini, rhubarb and peas!
If the weather holds, we may even have raspberries!

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Permalink Reply by marion stewart on July 2, 2009 at 8:33am

We have local strawberries - what a time for strawberry shortcake with all the trimmings!

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Permalink Reply by david e kelley on July 3, 2009 at 12:43pm

Barbequed pork ribs, summer squash (including zucchini}, tomatoes, swiss chard, herbs and garlic, green beans, watermelon, and ice cream. The temperature will be 102-103 degrees. Hey, this is July in Texas and we always celebrate freedom with good locally grown food and and fellowship.
Stay natural.

David

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