One Local Summer::Week 3

This week will look a lot like Week 1, except with a different fish, and differnt side. So it really doesn’t look anything like Week 1. But its fish, which is likely going to be theme because we eat a lot of fish and conveniently live next to an ocean.

What we have here is Halibut from the French Creek Fish Market, that I did on the BBQ, wrapped in tinfoil. It was marinated in soy sauce, brown sugar, basil and oregano so not one ounce of the sauce was local. It motivated me to look into local sources of sugar and yeah. No such thing, although Alberta does grow sugar beets, you just can’t tell which bag of sugar is made from sugar beets and which from sugar cane. Any thoughts on an alternative to sugar that would be local? Maybe applesauce? But wouldn’t applesauce leave behind the taste of, say, apple, more than just straight-up sweetness?
I didn’t even make an effort to find local soy sauce.
The potatoes were a fabulous find this week. A friend tipped me off that my local tourist market, Coombs, is now selling mostly local foods. Those little nugget potatoes were fabulous even if they were a tad crispy, and I also picked up cucumber, tomatos, peppers that were grown on Rage’s Farm in Port Alberni, and avocados (which are clearly not local, but organic, and yum! I love avocados!).
Next week I’m aiming to make something a bit more challenging instead of the fish-veggie-starch kick I’ve been on. I’m not yet sure what that something is.

3 Responses to “One Local Summer::Week 3”

1. fearthainn says:

   June 23, 2008 at 7:59 am

   You could use honey, if you can find a local source?
2. Amber says:

   June 23, 2008 at 6:22 pm

   Honey! What an obvious idea, and there is tons of local honey! Thanks!
3. Grandma says:

   June 24, 2008 at 10:40 pm

   That is so appetizing it makes me hungry!!!!!