Outpost 505

Eating:

Our OLS meal for the week was salad with lettuce, tomatoes, and carrots from the farmers’ market, a Meritage from Rappahannock Cellars (67 mi.), and local pasta with homemade spaghetti sauce from local seconds tomatoes, ground buffalo, and herbs from our garden.  The spaghetti sauce was a big disappointment, but we froze a jar of [...]

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Seen on Kasia’s blog:
Entertainment Weekly’s 100 New Classics:
1. Pulp Fiction (1994)
2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03)
3. Titanic (1997)
4. Blue Velvet (1986)
5. Toy Story (1995)
6. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
7. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
9. Die Hard (1988)
10. Moulin Rouge (2001)
11. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
12. The Matrix (1999)
13. [...]

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Look! I can use Google to make charts and graphs!

Am I sure how we spent $428.43 on groceries and other household-y stuff last month? Not really. I mean, we have the numbers, but I’m not sure what they mean, exactly. There were a few splurges on alcohol, lots of cheese and [...]

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On Sunday, I attented the Northern Virginia Summer Brewfest, which I had found out about from my friend Mark. He and his roommate were volunteering, so I filled out the form and volunteered as well. Volunteering got me entry, 4 drink tickets (entry and tickets was $25 normally), and a t-shirt. The morning began slightly [...]

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I missed the farmers’ market so much when we were at Bonnaroo.  It seems like a weird thing to miss, but that’s what I got.  After two months of doing most of our shopping at the market or individual stores, going to the grocery store just seems weird.
Growing:

Eating:

Pork and Broccoli Stir-fry

Pork from Cibola Farms, sliced [...]

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Not a whole lot to report this week as we were gone to Bonnaroo from Wednesday through Monday.  Our pet sitter kindly took care of our garden in our absence.  We have tomatoes growing on the vine, but both the parsley and cilantro are definitely gone.  Time to dig ‘em up and plant something new!  [...]

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I was totally brain-dead after work last night but, knowing that we’d be out of town for a few days for Bonnaroo, I managed to pull together our all-local meal anyway. Let’s call it “eggs in a nest”.
What I really wanted was zucchini pancakes, but lacking local flour, that was out of the question. [...]

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For the sake of argument, our definition of local is ‘produced within 150 miles of our home’, as that’s the definition used by one of the three farmers’ markets we frequent (Foggy Bottom).  The Courthouse market’s range is slightly more restricted – 125 miles – but still generous.  Within that range there are wineries, breweries, [...]

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No photos from our OLS week 2 menu due to the fact that our Internet at home is total crap currently.  Also, I realized that the OLS challenge started on June 1 rather than June 1 being the first reporting date, so maybe we’ll just call last week’s meal a wash.  Meal #2 menu:
Salt-cured ham [...]

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We here in #505 are a bit tired of this whole primary season, and are delighted to see things pull to a close assumedly in Obama’s favor.  (It’s interesting that when I did a spell check on ‘assumedly’, it suggested ‘assuredly’, which is what I’d like to think.  Thanks, Firefox, for the power of positive [...]

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