…it’s things like these that are sorely missed while on the 100 mile challenge. Our tenure for 2009 ended with a whimper yesterday…we had tickets to the Red Sox game and it is nearly impossible to go to the game and grab dinner without breaking the 100 mile rules. So we broke them. We ended the challenge around 5 last night by eating out at Audubon Circle before the game…we took time to savor some foods we missed…I had a corned beef panini and Ingrid had potstickers and some chevre cheesecake with oreo crust. It was nice to not have to think about where each ingredient had come from which leads me to this post. Now that the 100 mile challenge is over, we are able to buy whatever we want…but we want to keep this within reason. We’re going to continue to frequent the Farmer’s Markets, but we can now augment our purchases with items that were “banned” over the last couple of weeks. For example, tonight I enjoyed some whole wheat pasta with local summer squash and tomatoes, parsley and chives right from our backyard! Yes, I could’ve made some pasta with our local flour, but sometimes it is just out of reach to make the things that we sometimes take for granted. So while we’ve enjoyed our time on the challenge, it will be nice to let our guard down a little bit and be able to purchase some items we’ve been missing…we’ll be hitting the Goddard Park and Providence markets this week and we’ll be sure to post about our post- 100 mile experience(s). Oh yeah, 100 mile challenge February 2010?
-Josh
