One Local Summer: the virtual dinner edition
This week it’s all about preparation.
Or lack thereof.
(Serious lack.)
We’re not among the clever few (or many?) who’ve stashed away food from previous seasons or who’ve (ahem) planted their gardens before mid-July. Yeah, we’re that late.
(We have a bushel of excuses, trust me.)
This week, once again, it appears we’re not even well enough prepared to work a trip to the farmers’ market into our busy schedule.
Gah, schedules. They really are the bane of our existence.
Take this weekend for example.
Yesterday, I picked up a few items from the market (grocery, not farmers’) to do a simple local meal of potato latkes with fennel and snap peas on the side.
Then I sat down to get my Weekend Cat Blogging post done before I had to run out the door and head to a Move On sponsored Live Earth gathering, because yes, Cookiecrumb, I am that much of a hippie.
And do I even need to say it? I ran out of time to cook.
No problem! I’ll cook Sunday!
And here it is Sunday and what happens? I’ve got a dim sum date with friends in the morning and this evening we’re dealing with cats.
Oh, we can still cook — a rather late dinner — but then there’s this little thing called a 6pm Sunday deadline for the One Local Summer round up and Chopper doesn’t even get home from work till after seven.
So, for this week, just imagine local latkes. I’m imagining them right now. In fact, it’s just after six and my stomach’s already grumbling.
Oh, and I don’t have a picture handy of either potatoes or fennel, so you’ll have to settle for carrots from opening day of the Moreland Farmers’ Market, back in May.
Hey! I had time to go to the market back then! What the hell happened?
July 8th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Hey, if you want local lettuce and herbs, I have some that I can throw your way :-)
July 9th, 2007 at 10:57 am
MizD: Since you recently moved back home to a place that had been trashed, and since you are currently knee-deep in cat acquisition, you are absolved. You had other things on your mind.
Heck, for my OLS, I almost opened up a can of Snow’s clam chowder. (But then the obedient Brownie Scout in me raised her ugly head, and I participated.)
And — Take up Kathy on her offer!!
July 11th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
@kathy: Oh, you tempt me with your greens, and you are so so close to here… (We have herbs, plenty o’ herbs, but no lettucy things as of yet.)
@CC: I accept your absolution even though my lame attempt at participation didn’t make it into this week’s round up. Honestly, half the time it comes down to lack of time. Even if I get the produce in the door, finding time to do something creative with it is near impossible these days! I am currently blaming that fact on the cats. Yes. Cats.