Boston Eat Local Challenge: Day 27

For the record, I’m really looking forward to not having to itemize my meals everyday, as I’m sure you are.  The shame of daily jelly sandwiches for the kids is starting to take its toll.  In the form of even more jelly sandwiches.  It’s a vicious cycle. 

Come on, Sunday, come on…

Breakfast:
Yogurt (Stonyfield Farm, Londonderry, NH)
Chex (exempt) with milk (Crescent Ridge Dairy, Sharon, MA)
Last of the French toast bread pudding with maple syrup (Shattuck’s Sugarhouse, Belchertown, MA)

Snack:
Apples (Autumn Hills Orchard, Groton, MA)

Lunch:
Kids had jelly sandwiches on whole wheat bread, carrot sticks, and dried cranberries
I had leftover polenta with tomato and sausage sauce

Snack:
Cheddar cheese (Cabot, VT)
Homemade potato chips (made from the peelings of the potatoes I was cooking!)

Dinner:
Tortilla Espanola (potato omelet) (potatoes from Drumlin Farm, Lincoln, MA; onion from Blue Heron Organic Farm, Lincoln, MA; eggs from Pete and Jen’s Backyard Birds, Concord, MA)
Arugula salad (Drumlin Farm, Lincoln, MA)
Kids also had bread and butter, and, um, more apples

Notes: 
We ran out of fruit today (except for apples; we have a ton of those). 

And, yes, I made potato chips out of potato peelings.  Isn’t that how chips were invented?  It just seemed irresponsible to throw them away when they could be fried.  Of course, the kids rejected them outright as if I had just emptied the contents of our garbage can into the fryer.  Hello?  That’s what McDonald’s does.  At least I washed them first. 

Long story short, I ate them all.  They were light and crispy, but the flavor was deep, like the dark russet variety of Cape Cod potato chips.  And who doesn’t like those?  People who don’t know what’s good, that’s who.

 

Comments

[laurie]

that is the best looking batch of potato chips I have ever seen, I may have to pull out the fryolater!

[cookiecrumb]

OK, I love you, may I just say?
And here I've been altruistically tossing my peelings on the compost pile.
Hell!
Peel-chips, baby! From now on.

[Husband]

I want it known that:

1. No chips were saved for me.
2. I am desperate for chips.

This picture only serves to further torture me. O cruel world!

[Karen]

Have you thought of what your first bite will be in October? (I'm guessing your first sip will be Maker's Mark....)

I feel vicariously proud for you.

[Tammy]

Karen: You guessed it! Maker's Mark, first thing in the morning. I think Indian food is in my future, too.

Husband: 1. It was only a very small pile. 2. I'm greedy.

CC: Mmmm...fried trash.

Laurie: Well, thanks. Do you have the kind of fryolater with the basket? If so, I'm envious.

[John P]

Brilliant! I can't believe that I have been wasting them for all these years!

[Marsha]

With my love of all things potato, I can't believe I never thought of frying the peelings into chips before! You are a genius!! I just wish I had read this before the weekend--fried peels would have been the perfect garnish for the garlic rosemary mashed potatoes I made Saturday. Darn, I guess I'm just going to have to make them again. ;-)