Our first Dark Days Challenge dinner is a salad. I know, a salad is not perhaps the first meal that one thinks of as a dark days meal. But it was in the mid-60s today, and we had a big lunch buffet for the football game, so salad sounded awesome.
We started with lettuce, cilantro, and dill from the veggie stand next to the crepe stand at the Falls Church Farmer’s Market, supplemented with arugula, and mizuna, and bitter watercress from our garden.
Boiled some eggs from Smith Meadows Farm (in Berryville, VA, 61.5 miles from home).
Sauteed some red onions and green beans from the market in butter from Blue Ridge Dairy Farm (cheese is produced in Leesburg, VA, about 33 miles away, cows produce the milk in Carroll County, MD, about 58 miles away).
Topped it with some thinly sliced beef from the aforementioned Smith Meadows Farm, and some feta cheese from Fields of Grace Farm (in Remington, VA about 56 miles away).
Voila. Steak Salad a la Nicoise!
Our dressing was Annie’s Woodstock – not SOLE – but I’m considering this to be in our spices exception.
It was delicious!
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