For breakfast today, my dad had zucchini bread and an egg from my hens over the last of Friday night's bread. When I got up, I made more pancake batter and my mom and I had peach pancakes.
For lunch, my mom and I went in search of a way to use up some Chinese cabbage that had been sitting in the refrigerator for at least a week. We usually stir-fry it and add soy sauce, but that isn't an option right now because of the Locavore Challenge. We ended up using the instructions for sauteing vegetables from Enchanted Broccoli Forest to saute thinly chopped potatoes (garden), zucchini (garden), carrots (garden), Chinese cabbage (farmers' market), and onions (farmstand) in a bit of olive oil. My mom and I split the work of chopping the vegetables, which was nice because I usually finds that it gets old fast. The sauteed vegetables didn't end up being my favorite meal, but it used up the Chinese cabbage and was a nice change from a boiled-potatoes based meal.
Dinner was the leftover sauteed vegetables and, to celebrate Labor Day, peach cobbler (peaches from the Niagara Growers Cooperative, butter from Farmers and Artisans and Upstate Farms, honey from my dad's bees). The cobbler was good enough that I went back for more, but it just couldn't compare to the amazing pies and crisps my mom makes.
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