If you can get produce grown in your area, by all means try it! we get a lot of local fruits

[old mark]

and veggies this time of year...just bought some winesap apples, red bell peppers and a cauliflower this morning, along with some homemade peanut butter, with nothing in it but peanuts - not even salt!

This is so much better than shipped, agribusiness produce it is like two different things.

If you haven't done this, please try it - you will be amazed.

mark

[hippywife]

1. Been doing this for years now.

Local, grassfed meats and poultry straight from the farm, too. It's totally worth it, nothing beats it.

:hi:

[old mark]

2. We got a larger freezer a few weeks ago, and will visit a local stand at the farmer's market

for meats to fill it. You are right, nothing beats it. FWIW, we baked the cauliflower this afternoon and it is incredible.

mark

[hippywife]

3. We have a local state-wide coop

that delivers once a month so I only stock up for a month, plus we try not to eat too much meat even if it is the healthier stuff.

I only have the freezer over my fridge and I'm always afraid of loosing too much in a power outage. It has happened so that keeps me from going overboard stocking too much frozen meat.

Enjoy your local harvest. :hi:

[NEOhiodemocrat]

6. Baked the cauliflower?

I have never heard of baked cauliflower. How do you do that? Add anything to it?

[Suich]

4. Now you're making me hungry!

I started making "mashed cauliflower"...just like mashed potatoes only without the potatoes.

Deee-licious!

:)

[marybourg]

7. I made cauliflower-leek soup. Just like potato-leek soup , but better, add

a bit of curry powder.

[yellerpup]

5. All for it!

Our local supermarket carries it too, inappropriately marked up of course, but worth it. :hi:

[Tsiyu]

8. Real food is love for the soul

Went out to my dearest friends' very remote cabin yesterday after months away. We drank hot tea (kept hot in a wicker cozy long into the night) and supped on fresh raisin bread from the bread machine (recipe, not mix) slathered in Nutella and homemade raspberry preserves from their own bushes.

Oh. My. Heavens. :loveya: