Comments on: Dark Days on vacation

By: Anita

Anita — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:41:33 +0000

Helen: Don’t wait for us to open a restaurant, or you will never make it out here! I’ve seen enough of that life (through friends, and from my memories of college jobs) that it’s not even an amusing fantasy.

Shuna: Heck no — you’re at the very top

By: shuna fish lydon

shuna fish lydon — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:39:24 +0000

Y’all just let me know if you need a third person in your marriage.

Or am I at the very bottom of that waiting list?

By: Tartelette - Helen

Tartelette - Helen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:11:15 +0000

Hot dang! When you guys open a restaurant I’ll be the first one at the bar or in the back making you 100% local creme brulees!! Joke aside what a fabulous way to relax. I try as much as possible to buy homegrown, local produce and ingredients but we are light years behind over here. Wanna come start a revolution?!!

By: Urban Hennery » Blog Archive » Dark Days Challenge - 2008 Recap #1

Urban Hennery » Blog Archive » Dark Days Challenge - 2008 Recap #1 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:11:27 +0000

[...] Catching up with Anita is always fun. She’s got a fabulous post up about their 10 day holiday vacation and meals. I’ll just recap by telling you to check it out and also clueing you in to the fact that the photo is of the mini beef wellington’s they made for Christmas supper. Other meals included Dungeness crab, crab omelettes, chicken cacciatore, pasta bolognese, beef cheeks and cassoulet. Another place I wouldn’t have minded being for the holidays. Of course my pants wouldn’t have fit by the time I headed home… Alas, I didn’t win the notecards she donated to Menu for Hope – I had a momentary fleeting hope before I realized that she hadn’t spelled my name wrong, I really didn’t win. [...]

By: Anita

Anita — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:21:52 +0000

Clumsy: We’re fudging a little on flour and pasta, as our sources are (very) local, but they’re using non-local, and non-organic raw ingredients. Still, it’s better than an outright exemption, I guess. I was so excited to find that the rice I’d been buying all along was local, not just semi-local, and that a local farm is growing corn for whole-grain cornmeal; if they would just make a true polenta, I’d be happier, but it’s good enough for everyday.

We’ve just made the shift to pastured eggs — I finally decided the extra cash was really not all that huge of a deal, even though $7/dozen feels extravagant when you’ve been spending $2.25 for pseudo-free-range factory organic. But hell, I can spend $5 on this. (It’s nothing compared to the tripling of our meat costs, after all.)

Thanks for the good wishes. Looking forward to reading more of your blog, too.

By: clumsy

clumsy — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:02:54 +0000

What a wonderful sounding vacation! Glad you got time to relax.

It is super-lucky that you found a provider for all your local grains. I’m so jealous!

I’ve been eating a lot of my meat and all of my eggs from a local farm near my house. And doing that has spurred me to buy all grass-fed dairy products (I can’t bring myself to using farm fresh eggs and heirloom pork, but non-grass fed milk in a recipe!)

Best wishes for your continued challenge!!