What Maine foods are you (still) eating?

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Permalink Reply by Jim Hanna on February 26, 2008 at 1:42pm

Just finished a huge purple cabbage that we stored in our fridge and first sliced last month.
Much in our freezer including blanched collards, kale, spinach and green beans from our CSA Willow Pond Farm along with blueberries and strawberries from our garden.

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Permalink Reply by Jessica Gorton on March 1, 2008 at 2:58pm

We're still getting lots of stuff from Crown o' Maine - they make the winters bearable. Lots of carrots, potatoes, and apples from them. Lisa at Laughingstock has been a bit spotty, she was on vacation for a bit, and we're really missing her greens. In the "it's almost spring" department, Nate and Gabrielle at Six River Farm brought us the first of their spinach last week - yum! And of course, meat from Bisson's, pork from Thirty Acre (and kimchi and gingered carrots), Bowden's Eggs, Debbie Hahn's cheese...

After all this snow, I'm dying for some fiddleheads.

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Permalink Reply by Christine Alexander on March 2, 2008 at 7:51am

Hi--we've eaten our last butternut squash, but still have frozen blueberries and cranberries! Jamaican Curried Goat is still a favorite, while we it in the freezer. We also purchased some grass-fed beef to get us through to the fall.
Goats are just having babies, so soft and bloomy-rind cheeses and lots of yogurt will soon be enjoyed!
We're also ordering our seeds from Fedco, so we can look forward to another season of fresh veggies (for us and the goats!)

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Permalink Reply by Adam Tomash on March 2, 2008 at 11:17am

In our bulkhead root cellar we have celeriac, red and green cabbage, potatoes, leeks, rutabaga and carrots. in the big chest freezer we have beans, peas, brocolli, cauliflower, corn, eggplant (prepared for baking), grape juice, and carrot juice. In the fridge we have chinese cabbage (still!), kim chee, fresh pickles, and apples. canned are tomatoes, tomato juice, grape juice, plum juice and odds and ends. all from our own backyard garden

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Permalink Reply by Paul Drowns on March 2, 2008 at 6:27pm

Chard tortes, ratatouilli (All frozen of course)... cipollini onions, shallots, some beets, carrots, oven candied tomatoes, and tomato sauce left from the gardens, beef and pork properly raised on a local farm, and Patti Qua's wonderful beans.
I don't have much of a sense of the rest of the state but at least here in the Portland area, it is fairly easy to eat locally. Between local retail, my gardens, and farms, 85% or better local diet is attainable on a year round basis... I almost have a sense of "critical mass" being achieved before I'm compost!

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Permalink Reply by Amanda Beal on March 12, 2008 at 1:25pm

Still savoring the last few jars of slow roasted tomatoes I canned last summer, and have been enjoying the variety of hot pepper plants and fresh rosemary growing in my livingroom window all winter. I also enjoy fresh milk from my dad's organic dairy farm on a regular basis, and have a habit of keeping friends and family supplied with homemade ice cream...sometimes I even trade ice cream for eggs and other good food that my friends raise. Other than that, I'm blessed to have Royal River Natural Foods as my local grocer here in Freeport - too many local products year round to list - gorgeous fresh produce as well as cheeses, meats, oats, honey, eggs, you name it.....

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Permalink Reply by Jordan Pike on March 13, 2008 at 11:06am

Garlic, carrots still in the ground and mulched (we dig them throughout the winter), potatoes, Kim Chee, deer meat (hit by a car last week), Parsley dug from the garden and put in pots this fall...., and the winter squash is still holding on, but is getting soft in our less than ideal storage. All of our other meat comes from a local (4th generation) butcher shop down the road in Sanford... bacon, beef, pork, jerky...

Still not enough local food, though!

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Permalink Reply by Maggie Warner on March 18, 2008 at 9:18am

I still have raspberries and rhubarb in the freezer - I think they will become muffins soon.

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Permalink Reply by Stacy Brenner on May 4, 2008 at 9:32pm

ground turkey, carrots, parsnips, rutabaga, milk, milk, milk, cream, butter, ice cream, maple syrup, rasberries, strawberries, potatoes, onions, garlic, zucchini, tomatoes, pickles, applesauce, beans, chicken, oats, sauerkraut, beets....LOADS of Pork and tons of eggs.

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Permalink Reply by Merry Hall on May 5, 2008 at 6:42am

Wow Stacy, That's impressive. I want to come live at your house. Is your greenhouse heated or unheated? Do you have any secrets to share with all the rest of us? Merry

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Permalink Reply by Jordan Pike on June 12, 2008 at 2:01pm

Just ate NEW POTATO home fries this morning for breakfast!!!! Benefit of living in Mainecheussetts (S. Maine).

jp

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Permalink Reply by Cynthia Thayer on June 14, 2008 at 10:19am

We're eating potatoes, carrots, beets, cabbage, turnips, daikon radish - all from the root cellar. We're also eating garlic, have a couple of squash left, lots of veggies in the freezers, pesto, chicken, pork, beef, lamb, sausage. We don't buy any fruit either but we still have blueberries, strawberries, currants, gooseberries, rhubarb, raspberries, peaches, and applesauce from last year. We also are still eating canned tomatoes, pickles, jams, chutneys, kraut. By next week we will be eating entirely out of the garden and will have to feed all those still-good beets and carrots to the growing pigs just because it's that time of year.

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