Thanks to Kim O’Donnel’s “A Might Appetite” post last Friday and some conversation it sparked in the comments, I’m going to take on her Eat Local Challenge but add a twist: Eat local and single.

The Anne Arundel County challenge runs from July 19-27, so I will be posting dishes made with as many local ingredients as possible. Hopefully between planting my garden this week, getting my first delivery of local produce from Washington’s Green Grocer today (yay!), and shopping at the Annapolis farmer’s market on Sunday, I’ll be good to go.

Stay tuned for fresh photos and cool recipes! And join me if you want. Click here for the Buy Local Challenge website.

A good friend of mine has age-related macular degeneration (AMD) which means, in layman’s terms, he is slowly going blind (side note: did you know that there are two types of macular degeneration? Wet and dry). Luckily for him, he lives at an Erickson retirement community, so his life is very manageable. So far, he hasn’t let this obstacle slow him down. But every time I visit him, I am reminded of the importance of vision and just how frequently mainstream society forgets the importance of making their advertisements, appliance dials, etc. readable for Read the rest of this entry »