{"id":8278,"date":"2010-08-28T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T14:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=8278"},"modified":"2010-08-29T19:51:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T23:51:05","slug":"day-seven-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=8278","title":{"rendered":"Day Seven (Saturday)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinkyweisblat.com\/_ourgrandmotherskitchens\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/squishweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8279\" title=\"squishweb\" src=\"http:\/\/tinkyweisblat.com\/_ourgrandmotherskitchens\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/squishweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/squishweb.jpg 324w, https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/squishweb-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Today is the last day of the Loving Local blogathon. Thanks to everyone who has written, read, and donated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massfarmersmarkets.org\/FMFM_Main.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Mass Farmers Markets<\/a>!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Here are the posts we are learning about on Saturday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Teresa of <em>Farm Share Stories<\/em> pens a <a href=\"http:\/\/farmsharestories.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/sonnet-130-my-eggplants-taste.html\" target=\"_blank\">sonnet to her little white eggplant<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">JJ of <em>Cuisine en Locale<\/em> sings the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enlocale.com\/wp002\/2010\/08\/28\/loving-local\/\" target=\"_blank\">season&#8217;s praises<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Betsy at <em>A Plateful of Happiness<\/em> uses her farmers market haul for an after-work <a href=\"http:\/\/aplatefulofhappiness.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/27\/pot-luck-to-go\/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian-inspired pasta salad with summer vegetables<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Meghan of <em>Travel, Wine, and Dine<\/em> sums up her <a href=\"http:\/\/traveleatlove.com\/2010\/08\/farmers-markets-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">season of produce<\/a> in words and pictures in honor of Farmers&#8217; Market Week.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Pure Wellness Amy<\/em> shows off her sense of humor and her culinary skills with a colorful <a href=\"http:\/\/purewellnessamy.com\/2010\/08\/28\/green-bean-salad\/\" target=\"_blank\">green bean salad<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Sarah in the Kitchen<\/em>\u00a0plans a <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahinthekitchen.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/28\/gf-ancho-chili-chicken-quesadillas\/\" target=\"_blank\">gluten-free meal<\/a>\u00a0around\u00a0her ancho chicken chili.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">I, Tinky of <em>In Our Grandmothers&#8217; Kitchens<\/em>, go peachy kean with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=8284\" target=\"_blank\">summery crumble<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Catherine of <em>Pursuing Domestic Goddess-ness<\/em> transforms peaches into <a href=\"http:\/\/wamozart12cooks.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/loving-local-local-candy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Loving Local candy<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Myrna of <em>The PescoVegetarian Times<\/em> samples local products and explains <a href=\"http:\/\/myrnagreenfield.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/28\/have-you-hugged-your-farmers-market-this-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">why every week is Farmers&#8217; Market Week<\/a>\u00a0at her house.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Nikki\u00a0at <em>Art and Lemons<\/em> comes home from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artandlemons.com\/2010\/08\/falmouth-farmers-market-and-loving.html\" target=\"_blank\">Falmouth Farmers Market<\/a> with goodies&#8211;and a story.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Julie of <em>How Does YOUR Garden Grow?<\/em> shares a <a href=\"http:\/\/localnewengland.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/loving-local.html\" target=\"_blank\">plateful of joy<\/a> as she extols Holiday Brook Farm in Dalton.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Kathleen of <em>Parlez-Moi Blog<\/em> remembers a youth of <a href=\"http:\/\/parlezmoiblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/loving-local-remembering-corn-roasts.html\" target=\"_blank\">roasting corn and catching frogs<\/a> and shares a cucumber-salad recipe.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Kel at <em>More Cupcakes!\u00a0<\/em>shares her recipe for <a href=\"http:\/\/more-cupcakes.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/wheat-berry-tabouleh.html\" target=\"_blank\">wheat berry tabouleh<\/a> (and manages to work in the word &#8220;chiffonade&#8221;).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Joe at <em>Somerville Local First<\/em> discusses the ways in which the local-food movement is <a href=\"http:\/\/somervillelocalfirst.org\/2010\/08\/how-local-food-is-advancing-the-local-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\">influencing the local movement<\/a> in general.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">We have TWO posts from <em>Urbivores.net.<\/em> First, Jeremy discusses the consequences of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbivores.net\/urbivores.net\/Blogs\/Entries\/2010\/8\/25_Blueberry.html\" target=\"_blank\">buying blueberries in bulk<\/a>. Next, Emma chronicles the summer&#8217;s explosion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbivores.net\/urbivores.net\/Blogs\/Entries\/2010\/8\/28_The_Great_Tomato_Flood_of_Twenty-Ten_(Em).html\" target=\"_blank\">tomatoes<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">We belatedly discovered a post from Monday by Jeremy at <em>Basic Eating<\/em> in which he discussed his challenge for the week&#8211;to discover <a href=\"http:\/\/basiceating.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/hyperlocalism.html\" target=\"_blank\">four edible plants<\/a> within fifty feet of his front door!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">In what I think is our 100th post (although I&#8217;m a little bleary eyed so I&#8217;ll have to recount later!), Michael of <em>My World by Michael<\/em> writes of his love for <a href=\"http:\/\/myworldbymichael.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/tomatoes-and-spaghetti.html\" target=\"_blank\">spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Rob at <em>Baked Orchard<\/em> shares his experience at the <a href=\"http:\/\/bakedorchard.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/27\/framingham-farmers-market\/\" target=\"_blank\">Framingham Farmers Market<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Disposable Aardvarks<\/em> returns with <a href=\"http:\/\/disposableaardvarksinc.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/bento-recipes.html\" target=\"_blank\">two great lunch recipes<\/a> and a farmer&#8217;s market tour.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Abbe from <em>Out of the Box<\/em> doesn&#8217;t let a little thing like a camping trip get in the way of using and eating a LOT of <a href=\"http:\/\/outoftheboxfood.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/whats-in-box-of-peaches.html\" target=\"_blank\">peaches<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Lara of <em>Good Cook Doris!<\/em> surveys her local loot before showing off a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodcookdoris.com\/2010\/08\/so-simple-so-good.html\" target=\"_blank\">simple, tasty main dish<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><em><strong>Late Additions:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">This one was actually early&#8211;but we missed it! Ellen at <em>Bottomless Kitchen<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bottomlesskitchen.com\/2010\/08\/loving-local-it-is-massachusetts.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced the blogathon<\/a> and put in a plea for funds for farmers markets.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Maleah at <em>MassMoms<\/em> wrote about teaching her little boy where <a href=\"http:\/\/cf.telegram.com\/massmoms\/massmoms_blogs.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">good food<\/a> comes from.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">And Kathleen at <em>Parlez-Moi Blog<\/em> explains <a href=\"http:\/\/parlezmoiblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/how-loving-local-blogathon-helped-two.html\" target=\"_blank\">how the blogathon reunited old friends<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Today is the last day of the Loving Local blogathon. Thanks to everyone who has written, read, and donated to Mass Farmers Markets! Here are the posts we are learning about on Saturday. Teresa of Farm Share Stories pens a sonnet to her little white eggplant. JJ of Cuisine en Locale sings the season&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1278],"tags":[1297,1279,1298],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8278"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8281,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278\/revisions\/8281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}