OLS week 3 — All American Meat & Potatoes

I have been getting to our Farmer’s Market one day a week. This is a bit of a challenge as I live 25 miles outside of “town”, but right now this is my best source for local food. My garden is still pretty lame as we have had zero rain.

The market is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Saturdays. If you don’t get there right at 10am, the pickings can be slim. Stuff gets snatched up pretty quickly. I guess that is good, it means there is a healthy market for what is available. But it isn’t helping me any!

Here is the market (some people are shaded so I don’t get in trouble for posting all over the internets) :

See how dry the grass is? I envy those of you that have ample moisture.

Okay, I’ll stop whining. Here is my meal — I promised Mark a real meat & potatoes dinner. I rooted around in my freezer and found buffalo steaks I had hidden from him earlier in the year. Mark grilled them on our outdoor fireplace. (which he built himself with stone from Hill City, SD — but now that I think if it the stone came from Colorado I think. Scratch that )

I fried some of those delicious little red potatoes and an onion from the FM with some fresh garlic.

I also picked up some fresh green beans at the FM and steamed them (we ate half of them raw while preparing the meal — oops!).

The result? Plate-licken’ good!

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