Living La Vida Local

This summer, why not try to cook locally? Prepare a meal in which at least one major ingredient is locally produced. For example, in if you were to make a meatloaf dinner, perhaps the beef would come from a farm close to your home or you purchased the vegetables for the meal's side from a local market -- or both! If you don't have a farmer's market, check out smaller non-chain grocery stores or natural food stores. Both often have locally grown food.

If you would like to participate in this fun and eco-friendly event, simply email me the following information at escagnel04 (at) yahoo (dot) com (that 0 in "escagnel04" is a zero and not the letter "o," by the way):

* Your name
* The name of your dish/meal
* A link to your blog post about the dish (or, if you don't have a blog, a short description of the dish), including a recipe
* Your blog's name and URL
* A link to an optional photo (it must be uploaded to an online storage/sharing service like Flickr) that measures no larger than 240 x 160

That's all! Post the Living La Vida Local icon in your blog post, and download various sizes here: http://flickr.com/photos/betherann/2575384085/sizes/o/.

Participation will be open for just over one month, meaning that I'll be closing entries on July 15, 2008.