Yellow Finn Potato Recipe

This is a wonderful new recipe I found for Yellow Finn potatoes, just dug out of the ground last week. Yellow Finns are sweet and smooth, great for mashed potatoes and also the recipe below.  Yummy!

Yellow Finn Baked Potato Pancake

From “The Farm Market Cookbook,” by Judith Onley
6 medium Yellow Finn (or Yukon Gold) potatoes
2 eggs
2 tablespoons flour
1 large garlic clove, pressed
1 tablespoon grated onion
2 teaspoons salt
Lots of freshly ground pepper
1 1/4 cups milk
3 tablespoons butter, melted
Sour cream and minced fresh parsley for garnish
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 11-inch quiche pan or other baking dish.

Peel and grate the potatoes with a medium-holed grater. Add the remaining ingredients except the melted butter, sour cream and parsley and mix well – your hands are most effective here. Put potatoes into the prepared baking dish and press the surface down flat.

Drizzle the melted butter over the top and bake for 1 hour.

Serve immediately with a bowl of sour cream and another of minced parsley on the side.

Yield: 6 servings

September-local foods aplenty

It is now September, the weather is changing but local food is plentiful.  Picked the last of the blackberries for this year, they were so ripe and juicy we were eating as much as picking.  Headed over to Shoemakers Orchard for the last of their wonderful Improved Elberta's, yum.  Melancholy time of year for me, still full of summer but with a hint of the coolness yet to come......

100 percent Local

August 24th 2009
Haven't really known what to do with this blog since I began. I guess I didn't really understand what a blog is about. I really want to talk about how eating locally is so much fun and so healthy for yourself and your community. I go to a regular grocery store now and I look at what is offered and I don't see food. I see packaging and advertizement. It is annoying to see all the crap people put in their grocery carts. Not that I don't buy items with some packaging. But when we can buy directly from farms, when you see the food growing and know that the day before it was in the ground or on the vine, there is nothing that beats that!
We had the best cantaloupe ever this morning. Juicy and sweet, with the perfect ripeness. From Rice Family Organic Farm in Meridian Idaho. Wonderful!

Local food defined

Local food (also regional food or food patriotism) or the local food movement is a "collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies - one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular place"^[1] and is considered to be a part of the broader sustainability movement. It is part of the concept of local purchasing and local economies, a preference to buy locally produced goods and services. Those who prefer to eat locally grown/produced food sometimes call themselves "localvores" or locavores.[