As I've said time and time again I'm a huge fan of local food. It is a little easier said than done in Northeast Wisconsin at certain times of year. I also have some foods that I absolutely love that sadly aren't local, but I purchase anyway. One of which is peaches. I adore a good peach. Tree Ripe Fruit truck delivers Pearson's farm peaches in June, July and August. One of my favorite lunches is a salad of peaches, tomatoes either from my garden or the farmers' market, burrata from a local cheese company, basil and balsamic vinegar from a local vinegar shop.
My husband is making a lot of fresh pasta for us these days. This picture is of local mushrooms, both farmed and forged, fresh herbs, and burrata again is one of my favorite dinners. I served it with a green salad with lettuce from our garden.
Also how can you go wrong with muffins? The blueberries are from Michigan -we can't grow them here really. However the strawberry rhubarb muffins are as local as I can get. I used 1 cup strawberries and 1 cup rhubarb because I had so much in my garden.
I hope this post inspires you to see what local foods you can use the rest of this July. Also if you are interested check out this post about a 200 mile eating local challenge for September.
As always with love from the Midwest,
Beth
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