Meal 20. Meal TWENTY. Thanks to the husband’s big interest in One Local Summer and his culinary creativity, we’ve pushed well past the goal of 14 meals and made it to twenty meals with still more planned. He’s back home again and decided to work up a meal he remembers fondly from his childhood. His mom was regularly cooking for a table set for 10 or more people, so recipes that were cost effective and served lots of people at once were the standard. This is called Hutspot, a Dutch meal consisting of mashed carrots, parsnips, potatoes, and topped with bacon. It actually dates back to the 1500s in Holland and was no doubt a part of Doug’s paternal family that came over from Holland in the 1950s. History and dinner! I’ll admit that it’s kind of bland (that’s the point though) but the bacon on top is a nice touch and the use of root vegetables means you could’ve likely made this most of the winter as well when fresh vegetables were scarce (pre-electricity). Perfect time of year to introduce this into our One Local Summer set of meals. On to the ingredients!
Ingredients:
Turnips – Jack’s Farm
Carrots – Jack’s Farm
Potatoes – Our Garden
Bacon – Countrytime Farm
Maple Syrup – Miller’s Maple
Non Local – Salt, pepper