January 25, 2010

100 Miles . . . in February?

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So Josh and I had kicked around the idea of doing the 100 Mile Challenge in February.  We like the challenge in the summer and we thought we could try it out in a colder, darker month.   However, we did pick the shortest month of the year.  This past weekend we decided that we are definitely going to take the plunge – the 100 Mile Challenge in February.  Those 20 pounds of frozen strawberries in the freezer will come in hand next month!  I’m already planning for the first week – February 1st is one week from today.  I’m not sure why but the first few days catch us off-guard when we have done this in the past but not this month.  I have some of Kenyon’s white corn meal and flour from UpinGil Farm so this Sunday, I’ll be making blueberry (also in the freezer from this past summer) corn muffins to have for the first week.

 

August 24, 2009

Flour – it’s a wonderful thing!

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So Josh and I (it’s Ingrid – I guess that’s obvious) both wanted to try out the flour we purchased this weekend.  I was craving something with some sweetness so I tried the Beautiful Blueberry Cornbread (really, that’s the name) recipe from The New England Cookbook.  I couldn’t find the exact recipe online but this one is very similar.  However, instead of baking it as a loaf, I made muffins.  I had to have one as soon as they were cool and they were good!  The color was a little off because the flour was whole wheat flour and instead of mixing in whole blueberries, I added ~3/4 cup of blueberry . . . mush I guess you would call it.  I had about 5 cups of frozen blueberries – blueberries that I had picked last year.  I cooked them all down and then strained them.  I froze the resulting blueberry juice for future use but didn’t know what to do with the blueberry mush so I put in the frig until inspiration stuck.  Well, inspiration struck and I added it to the cornbread/muffin batter – the batter turned a dark purple.  The muffins were really good – especially with some butter slathered on them while still warm.  And it was all legal by our rules as we still had some sugar left from before starting the challenge.

Josh made bread – we’ll leave that story for tomorrow!

Ingrid

 

January 1, 2009

Tastes like summer!

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I (this is Ingrid) was looking in the refrigerator today and saw some of the cornmeal that we had experimented with over the summer. We tried cornmeal gnocchi (not too bad sauteed in olive oil and sage) and cornmeal muffins (good for when we really wanted some “grains”). Low and behold, there was still some left (it keeps indefinitely in the fridge). I thought I would try real corn meal muffins, ones with flour from outside the 100 mile ring. Though all the ingredients used today were not local, a few were; Carpenter’s Cornmeal, Little Rhody Eggs, and blueberries we picked back in July. We froze a lot of blueberries just for occasions like this. Josh had the idea to add the blueberries to the cornmeal muffins. The recipe was super easy and quick – from the Joy of Cooking. I just pulled them out of the oven about an hour ago, smeared some butter on one, and tried it. They are really good but not super sweet though I added 2 tablespoons of sugar and over one cup of blueberries. Those blueberries taste just like summer to me – I can’t wait to have more for breakfast tomorrow!

~Ingrid

 

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