Pre-July 4th Mission
We have a party every year on the 4th of July, it being one of my very favorite holidays, and this year is no different. We got the pool all ready, the backyard is prepped, and though we haven't got the side yard all to our liking, we are ready. This year we decided on a theme for the party and the theme is about as patriotic as you can get: ALL LOCAL. Everything we are going to be serving--eats and drinks--is all local. Here is a run down.
We got hamburgers from a local butcher (Central St. Butcher in Leominster, and they use local cows). They don't have a site, they are too busy chopping up delicious cows, chickens, lambs, goats, and pigs to make a website.
Ice Cream from Rota Springs, our favorite ice cream place. It is really local, like the cows are right behind the ice cream stand. Here is a picture of Isaac and I at Rota Springs last weekend looking at the cows (and yes, he went crazy, he loves animals):
We got chips from a local chip company, Wachusett Chips.
We got our soda from Polar Beverages, a soda and seltzer company in Worcester.
We got our beer from a few local breweries: Sam Adams (it feels like cheating, but its not, they are local, in JP as a matter of fact), Smuttynose, and Harpoon.
Bread and buns are from a local bakery we found that is awesome: Union Bread Company in Leominster. The best part of the bakery, other than the baked goods, is that it is on the way home from Lowes. I can very easily see a trip to Lowes on Saturday morning with Isaac with a stop at Union Bread Company in the future. It will help recreate the Mama DiSalvos pit stop that my Dad and I used to do (and still do when we go back to Ohio). They have AWESOME prosciutto.
Even the ketchup is local. This week I went to a local Nashua restaurant, Peddler's Daughter, and got a gallon of their AWESOME nutmeg chunky ketchup. It is really quite good.
Because all of the stuff is local and most needs to be fresh, Isaac and Dad had a mission today. We had to go get all the stuff, along with a hose caddy (our old one broke). So we got suited up and hit the pavement in Subbie. Here is the video footage from our adventure.
P.S.: Second Mission with Isaac = AWESOME; our first one was here.
We got hamburgers from a local butcher (Central St. Butcher in Leominster, and they use local cows). They don't have a site, they are too busy chopping up delicious cows, chickens, lambs, goats, and pigs to make a website.
Ice Cream from Rota Springs, our favorite ice cream place. It is really local, like the cows are right behind the ice cream stand. Here is a picture of Isaac and I at Rota Springs last weekend looking at the cows (and yes, he went crazy, he loves animals):
We got chips from a local chip company, Wachusett Chips.
We got our soda from Polar Beverages, a soda and seltzer company in Worcester.
We got our beer from a few local breweries: Sam Adams (it feels like cheating, but its not, they are local, in JP as a matter of fact), Smuttynose, and Harpoon.
Bread and buns are from a local bakery we found that is awesome: Union Bread Company in Leominster. The best part of the bakery, other than the baked goods, is that it is on the way home from Lowes. I can very easily see a trip to Lowes on Saturday morning with Isaac with a stop at Union Bread Company in the future. It will help recreate the Mama DiSalvos pit stop that my Dad and I used to do (and still do when we go back to Ohio). They have AWESOME prosciutto.
Even the ketchup is local. This week I went to a local Nashua restaurant, Peddler's Daughter, and got a gallon of their AWESOME nutmeg chunky ketchup. It is really quite good.
Because all of the stuff is local and most needs to be fresh, Isaac and Dad had a mission today. We had to go get all the stuff, along with a hose caddy (our old one broke). So we got suited up and hit the pavement in Subbie. Here is the video footage from our adventure.
P.S.: Second Mission with Isaac = AWESOME; our first one was here.