One Recent Dinner

I was going to post this last week, but Blogger was giving me attitude. Here's a recent dinner that was largely local:



Pizza made with:

• whole wheat crust from Bread Works


• tomato sauce


• mozzarella and provolone cheese


• tomatoes from the Farm at Red Hill


• fresh basil from Planet Earth Diversified

With a simple salad made from:

• romaine lettuce from the City Market


• Soy-Cha dressing from Palcha Products

And for dessert:

• strawberries from the Tuesday farmers' market in the parking lot at Whole Foods

I'm hoping that this summer I'll be able to can some tomatoes and maybe make tomato sauce, so my pizzas next fall and winter can have a local sauce on them. I don't know of any Charlottesville-area dairies producing pizza-type cheeses like mozzarella. If I feel like going totally local sometime, I'll have to experiment with putting other types of cheese such as Marshall Farms' cheddar or jack on pizza.

(Ingredients listed in boldface are locally produced.)