For this week’s Dark Days dinner, the selected meal was a pantry-raided, complex-carbohydrate-rich affair.
We were itchy for something toothsome the night before, so the next day I baked some beans and bread. Baked beans, bread and salad: simple, hearty fare that was so welcome on this, the first harsh night of our winter season.
- Beans: One cup of our cranberry beans, one Copra onion, two cloves of Big Stinky (an unknown but huge hardneck garlic), with dried sage and other garden herbs; two chunks of smoked pork belly (Hopeful Farms pork from Ligonier, IN; smoked at Miller’s Smoke House of Middlebury, IN: both these are Amish-run, so, no websites), and honey from Honey Hound Bee Farms, Eau Clare, MI.
- Bread: Whole-wheat boule with 50/50 spelt/hard red spring wheat from Ferriss Organics; butter made from cream from the school’s cow share
- Salad: greenhouse goodies
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Sounds like the perfect meal to me
Warm and nourishing.
Simple and tasty are key on the cold days. I’m always jealous of your vast variety of beans
And Big Stinky garlic I’ve never heard of… how did you come by it?
Mavis, yeah, and kinda boring too but what can I say? I love beans.
Stef, definitely that!
MC, I have no real idea where I got that garlic that I call “Big Stinky,” I think maybe it’s a German hardneck that I picked up at a farmer’s market in NYC. It loves growing for me. It doesn’t keep long so that’s why I named it what I did…
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el do you heat the greenhouse at all?….
Looking at all those plants makes me want one really bad… I already garden from thaw to freeze…. hmmm
Shelly, no, no heat at all. Things DO get quite cold though in there, but mostly they all “take it.” The magic truly happens when there’s a bit of sunshine: by about 2 p.m. it will be toasty in there! Right now, though, with all this snow and gray skies, no, they’re not the most inviting of places…but it still beats being outdoors, if you’re a lettuce!