Hello All!!I have been thinking about making a blog for a while now, but I didn't know what to write about. A friend of mine recently let me borrow Barbara Kingsolvers Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and I am now committed to becoming a localvore. The book literally changed how I feel about everything I eat and where my food comes from. I felt overwhelmed! I already frequented the local farmers market, but I didn't feel I had the time to pick up all of the fruits and vegetables and actually make things with them.
So I started about three weeks ago and so far so good. I am cooking dinner about 4-5 nights a week. I buy all of my fruits, vegetables, eggs and dairy (milk, cheese, butter) from the farmers market and then what I can't get there I buy at Whole Foods. Tonight I decided to make Penne with Vodka Sauce after my husband, who has been kind of apprehensive about this whole localvore thing, suggested it.
I started with mincing two cloves of garlic and 1/4 of a large onion and then putting that into a large pot with about two tbsp. of olive oil. After browning them I added seven large tomatoes that were skinned and cut into quarters (I like chunky sauce so if you like it smoother cut them into smaller pieces). I set it to medium heat and let it simmer for about an hour stirring it every 10 minutes or so .
After it got to the consistency that I wanted I added 1/2 cup of heavy cream and was reaching for the vodka when I realized we didn't have any. My husband even asked me when we were at the grocery store if we had vodka and I told him, "oh yeah, of course we do!".
So it turned out to be a very nice tomato cream sauce which I put over spinach penne that I got at Whole Foods. Hopefully soon I will have a pasta maker and I will be making the pasta along with the sauce!
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