Using seasonal ingredients is an important part of buying local and minimizing your “carbon footprint”. But also, things TASTE better when they’re in season! There is nothing better than the taste of a ripe peach in the middle of the summer or the tang of citrus fruits brightening up the dead of winter. Now, living in the Midwest, I’m obviously not buying oranges locally…but I do my best to buy when things are in season here. Which brings us to the subject at hand – the SEASONAL POTLUCK! My friend Betsy and I decided to put this together for fellow bloggers and food lovers, and you’re invited!
We will be adding a badge to both of our sites shortly that you can grab and add to your “potluck” posts. (UPDATE: the badge is posted! Just copy and paste the html below into a widget to add it to your site.) We will also figure out a way to link back to everyone’s posts. The more recipes, the better! The rules are below, and please feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions. To see what has been shared in the Potluck and post recipes of your own, click here.
Join us for the APRIL potluck, which kicks off this Friday the 1st (not an April Fool’s joke!).
April featured ingredient: RHUBARB
May Potluck ingredient: ASPARAGUS
June Potluck ingredient: STRAWBERRIES
July Potluck ingredientS: BLUEBERRIES & ZUCCHINI
August Potluck ingredients: PEACHES & CORN
September Potluck ingredients: APPLES & TOMATOES
October ingredient: PUMPKIN
November ingredient: SWEET POTATOES
December ingredient: PEARS
Seasonal Potluck
The Rules!
- All recipes must include the seasonal ingredient of the month.
- Any course (i.e. appetizer, main dish, dessert) and even drinks are fair game.
- One post per week is the goal, if you can’t – we still want you to participate! Just post as much as you can or would like to.
- Recipes can be posted any day of the week, BUT if you post on Friday try to make a drink or an appetizer in the spirit of happy hour!
- Share your recipes with us here!
You can see what Betsy is cooking at www.betsylife.com or follow her on Twitter @betsylife
I’d like to participate! Will you be doing linkbacks to everyone’s rhubarb posts?
Hi Kara, yes – we will do linkbacks to all the posts. Glad you’ll be joining us!
sounds like fun!!
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This is a great idea. thank you for sharing. the whole family will never get bored.
I’d love to join… I think this is a very great green movement… well I love to this idea a lot.
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