Eating and living locally . . . mindfully . . . simply.
Sometimes people hear “eat local” and they picture expensive, fancy food. I went out to dinner the other night with friends to a burger joint that we like because they source some things locally. “It doesn’t have fancy buns, does it?” they asked the waitress. While made on site, I’m not sure one would consider them “fancy.” But I digress. This week’s Dark Days Challenge entry is most definitely not fancy, but is fast, easy, and–local.
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Believe it or not, I’ve only made one other meatloaf (Mediterranean Meatloaf). However, we have a lot of ground venison/beef to use up so I thought I’d give this recipe a try.
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It’s a little more than a month until deer hunting season here in Michigan; we have run out of steaks and roasts and I’m staring at packages and packages of ground venison. So I was excited when I came across this recipe in Extending the Table: A World Community Cookbook.
This is quite a versatile recipe; you can make it in a slow cooker, or bake it, or microwave it if you really want to. It’s a great way to sneak in more vegetables.
This is a great recipe to use up whatever random vegetables you have in your refrigerator. It’s based on a couple of other skillet dishes I’ve made over the years. Best of all, it’s fast and frugal!
My friends at Collective Bias issued another challenge: make something in a slow cooker, using Frank’s Red Hot sauce. I decided to combine it with my Dark Days Challenge and created the following recipe, which turned out great if I do say so myself.
This is an old favorite recipe from my Pampered Chef days, which I had forgotten about. It’s a real crowd-pleaser.
This is the latest installment of DH’s quest for the perfect burger cook-off competition recipe. It’s from the book Char-Broil’s Everybody Grills! I’ve enjoyed having some time off from the kitchen, and surprisingly I’m not sick of burgers yet! Probably because these are all so different.
This is a recipe from The I Hate to Cook Book, which was written in the 60s and is actually quite funny. It was recently re-released. I tried not to adapt the recipe too much.
I am so thankful for DH. I was making this for Sunday dinner to bring to my parent’s, when I realized that the ground venison we got out last night wasn’t thawed. So he drove to the store to pick up some fresh ground beef. Dinner was saved!
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