My locavore project

In a desire to eat locally grown food and use local products, I am using this blog to help spread awareness of what products we an get locally.
I am updating a local shopping list of where to get all of the local products that we use.
I am also sharing recipes made with local ingredients.

Click on 'Local Shopping List' under 'Labels' to see a local shopping list of products and sellers.

Click on 'recipes' (or categories, 'breakfast', 'lunch', 'dinner', 'appetizer', 'dessert', 'main dish', 'side dish') under 'Labels' to see an array of different recipes using local ingredients!

My goal is for my family to live simply, locally, & abundantly.
There will still be some products that we cannot get locally (sugar, oil, TP, rice, etc.),
but I hope to cut down on items needed at chain stores.
We are trying to buy most of those products in bulk to cut down on waste, costs, and clean up our carbon footprint.

I want my family to support local businesses and eat healthier!
I feel that if we know where our food and products are coming from, we will grow to respect every item more.

It is important to me that my family not be exposed to GMO's, hormones, a large amount of pesticides, chemicals, etc.

By buying local, you support your local economy, businesses, jobs, and families.

Please feel free to share on this blog! Let me know what goods you are finding locally & what recipes you are creating.

Thank you to the many people who make eating locally possible!
Thanks for your vision, hard work,
and love for food! We support you!

Blessings! Jessi

Friday, April 19, 2013

Twice Baked Sweet Potato

Served with roasted squash and zucchini and a BBQ sandwich from
North Georgia BBQ in Helen.
Here is their contact info:
663 Edelweiss Strasse, Helen, GA 30545
706-878-5753

Ingredients:
3 sweet potatoes
2 tbsp butter
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp milk

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400.
Wrap sweet potatoes individually in foil and bake for 1 hour. 
Let sweet potatoes cool until you can handle them.
Cut them in half, and scoop out center pulp 
leaving about half an inch of pulp on the sides.
Put pulp in medium sized bowl.
Add butter, salt, cinnamon, honey, and milk and mash ingredients 
until blended.
Fill potato shells with pulp and place them on a baking sheet.
Bake for 15-20 minutes.

Makes 6 servings.

Enjoy!

I am not a huge fan of baked beans and traditional potato salad, 
so I like sides like this to go with a BBQ sandwich. 


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2 comments:

  1. oukayApril 23, 2013 at 5:31 PM

    Just found your blog after reading about it in the White County News. We live in FL, but have a fixer upper in Sautee. I try to cook with as much local and organic food as I can down here, and will look forward to reading about what is available in NE Georgia. Keep up the good work!

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  2. UnknownApril 25, 2013 at 4:44 AM

    Thank you so much! If you have any questions when you get up here, I would be happy to answer them. :)

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