Check out all 20 of Sarah Jackson’s Dark Days recipes and the story of how her eat-local adventure began.
For the past three years, Laura McCrae has encouraged locavores across the country to eat local in fall and winter, during the year’s darkest days. Click here to find out why. Click here to find out why Sarah Jackson, the Eco Geek, took the challenge and read on for stories and reicpes.
Week 1: Potato and Bacon Soup Week 2: Coho Salmon with Dill and Garlic
Week 3: Squash Curry Puree Soup
Week 4: Oven-Baked Goat Sausage and Cabbage
Week 5: Slow Cooker Pot Roast
Week 6: Whole Wheat Pancakes and Oven-Fried Bacon
Week 7: Braised Short Ribs with Apples
Week 8: Savory Bread Pudding with Squash and Sausage
Week 9: Easy Apple Crisp
Week 10: French Onion Soup with Homemade Beef Bone Stock
Week 11: Super-Rich Scalloped Potatoes
Week 12: Country-Style BBQ Ribs
Week 13: Super-Moist Meatloaf
Week 14: Cheese Souffle
Week 15: Roast Local Chicken
Week 16: Parsnip Puree Soup
Week 17: Almost No-Knead Whole Wheat Bread Week 18: Easy Frozen-Strawberry Cobbler
Week 19: Collards with Black Beans and Sausage
Week 20: Spring Salad with Optional Dungeness Crab
Lessons learned: What an adventure! Read all about it.
Watch this blog for a regularly updated list of local farmers markets or see www.pugetsoundfresh.org or www.localharvest.org to find markets, CSAs and local-food grocers in your area.
Follow Sarah Jackson, the Eco Geek, on Twitter at twitter.com/ecogeektweets.
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