So anyway, tonight’s dinner was chili and cornbread. I started by cooking the beans and then I added ground beef, beans, onion, garlic, canned tomatoes, spices and topped it with Parmesan cheese.
For the cornbread, I used a recipe from one of my favorites: More-with-Less Cookbook. I discovered this cookbook back in my college days and it remains one of the most useful books I own. Produced by the Mennonites, a good chunk of the book is about eating better while living lightly. The rest is from-scratch recipes and I haven’t found a bad one, yet. (Well, except for the lentil recipe that came out looking like dog food... but it tasted fine!) I baked from-scratch cornbread and served it with local butter and honey. Munchkin begged for more.
To complete the meal, I tossed a green salad that made use of Farmers’ market veggies , backyard lettuce and 3 sugar snap peas. My garden isn’t doing very well this year. There were five peas, but when I was outside before dinner, I accidentally ate two of them.
Chili:
Local - grass-fed beef, Azure farm beans, onion, garlic
Non-local: Canned tomatoes (we’re still waiting in Oregon!), spices, Parmesan
Local - grass-fed beef, Azure farm beans, onion, garlic
Non-local: Canned tomatoes (we’re still waiting in Oregon!), spices, Parmesan
Cornbread:
Local - eggs, Azure farm whole wheat flour, milk, Tillamook butter, honey
Non-local - organic flour, organic cornmeal, oil, baking powder, salt
Local - eggs, Azure farm whole wheat flour, milk, Tillamook butter, honey
Non-local - organic flour, organic cornmeal, oil, baking powder, salt
Salad:
All local veggies
Non-local: dressing
All local veggies
Non-local: dressing
7 comments:
Chili and cornbread is one of my favorite meals. YUM!
At least you got peas in! My peas will be a fall crop. I'm pretending I planned it that way! :)
I've been cooking out of the More With Less cookbook for years. One of the things I loved about it was that it taught me how to cook right out of the garden. I still make that lentil and barley stew recipe all the time, as well as the oatmeal bread.
Stephanie: Thanks for dropping by! I hope you get more peas than I did, whenever they come!
Joyce: It's a great cookbook, isn't it! I'll have to look up that lentil & barley stew.
You accidentally ate two of them. That's hilarous! Ours are all done - victim to powdery mildew and heat. But I'm not complaining because I spotted a ripening tomato the other day . . . and promptly ate it.
GB: Ooooo! Your tomatoes are getting ripe! I can hardly wait for Oregon's, but so far all I've seen are greenhouse grown.
Happy to amuse you. :)
I never thought of lentils exactly this way but they always look like dog food at our house too. And we eat every last bite they are so good.
kale: I'm afraid they're not quite so popular around here!
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