I love it when we sit down to a meal and realize it’s almost all local food! We made this salad with our first garden harvest of greens (although we’ve been buying local lettuce for a few weeks now), radishes, green onion, and locally grown kidney beans. The sunflower seeds and dressing (homemade with a base of olive oil, vinegar, and minced garlic) prevent this salad from being 100% local.
Second component of the meal: butternut squash soup. We bought 15 butternut squash in the fall; for this meal, we ate the last squash. They kept beautifully for over six months with minimal effort. We put them in mesh bags (the bags that onion come in, for example) and hung the bags from nails in our basement. Simple!
For this soup, we roasted the whole squash, then added sauteed onions, butter, milk, cumin, turmeric, and salt. I blended it all with my stick blender for easy clean-up.
It all came together for a simple, delicious, local dinner.
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