We’ll be harvesting some of our own Swiss chard for dinner this week!
The holidays are almost upon us and while I am not at all ready, I am sprinting to the finish line of 2012. Later this week I will post some of our traditional holiday recipes and how we are using local ingredients to improve our standard Christmas Eve and Christmas menus. As for this week, we are keeping it simple and trying to have fun in this last rush before Santa arrives.
Our budget is $77.93 for the week. Here is what we spent:
Budget
- Walker Farm (ground bison): $8.50
- Mae Farm (ground pork, pork tenderloin, bacon): $28.00
- Rare Earth Farm (eggs, buttermilk): $6.00
- The Mitchell’s pantry (sticky fig jam, strawberry jam, green beans, corn, applesauce, tomatoes): $12.00
- Trader Joes (cheese, bread, frozen fruit, steel-cut oats): $23.43
Here is what we are having this week!
Menu
- Sunday–Bison meatloaf, roasted cauliflower, kale
- Monday–Angel hair pasta with roasted tomato sauce
- Tuesday–Whole wheat reindeer pancakes and homemade applesauce
- Wednesday–Sauteed Swiss chard topped with eggs
- Thursday–Grilled cheese and homemade tomato soup
- Friday–Leftover buffet
- Saturday–Pork tenderloin with sticky fig jam, summer green beans, corn
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Heather @ SugarDish(Me)
/ December 18, 2012How did your bison burgers turn out? We ate at Pack’s Tavern in Asheville last Saturday and they had the Carolina Bison Burger on the menu! $13.49 though. I had chicken.
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/ December 18, 2012Well, we ended up eating cereal or something that night because we pigged out on barbeque at Tom’s family holiday lunch! So, the bison ended up being very yummy meatloaf instead. And that is a lot for a burger of any kind! I’m pretty sure the Tavern paid wholesale on the bison 🙂