Farm to Table
Posted in farm to table on Aug 9th, 2008
Wow, it’s the beginning of August, and it’s starting to feel like the summer’s already over. Kids are heading back to school all across America, and even the weather is turning fallish. Not to mention the days getting shorter. But I’ve just started to harvest my tomatoes! Surely we have a few good weeks left to revel in the glorious food of summer.
Last year, we enjoyed tomatoes into October, so I remain hopeful.
This week’s meal for the One Local Summer blog challenge features some of those glorious tomatoes, though I was so excited about my mozzarella that I let it hog the camera. This is a fabulous(ly easy) bruschetta, featuring multicolored heirloom tomatoes: German red strawberry (red), German striped (yellow with sunsplashed rays of red), ananas noire (green—donated by CSA member Carrie P.) and the non-heirloom sungold (orange, sweet, and tasty!).
Also in the bruschetta are purplette onions, basil, garlic and fresh mozzarella from our cow’s milk, which was absolutely divine. I’ll be making that much more often, I can tell you. We enjoyed this atop some bread baked local to my in-laws, who were kind enough to bring a giant bag down for my freezer last time they visited. Sometimes it’s nice to be able to pull something out to reheat rather than baking from scratch.
To round out our meal (though I would’ve been happy with just the bruschetta and wine!) was a whole chicken, roasted with butter, rosemary, thyme and Russian banana fingerling potatoes, another heirloom veggie—all fresh from our farm. If you’ve never tried fingerling potatoes before, you’re missing a real treat. They are creamy, buttery goodness: roasted in homemade butter and herbs, they approach Nirvana.
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