Comfort Food: this term has many meanings to each individual. To me, comfort food involves something tasty that is simple to make with natural ingredients, the closer to the house the better! Anyone who knows me even remotely well knows that I am a food snob, yes I am picky and want to know where and how my food was raised be it a piece of meat or a vegetable. I am addicted to living close to good food, in Maine I thrive on all the local farmers on the Blue Hill Peninsula. The majority of the year I am lucky to have Codman Farm and Blue Heron Farm. Tonight I made dinner from some of my favorite local farmers.  Find a local farmer around you for pork, I always enjoy the delicious pork from Bagaduce Pork, tonight I used their "Dad's Sausage".  Check out your farmer's market for a good olive oil source, I buy amazing extra virgin olive oil imported from a small farmer in Italy at the Winter Farmer's Market in Wayland.  

French Inspired Farmer's Market Dinner

serves 1, can easily be adapted for 2

2 small red potatoes, small chunks
5 baby turnips, thinly sliced
5 baby carrots, thinly sliced
12 pea pods, trimmed
2 farm fresh eggs
1/4 cup cooked ground sausage
freshly ground pepper
ancho chili sea salt
olive oil



Add 1 tsp of olive oil to a nonstick frying pan and heat until warm but not smoking. Add potatoes, and cook for a few minutes. Add baby carrot and turnip. Cook until veggie mix is starting to become tender. Add ground pepper and sea salt over the mixture, crack two eggs over the top of the mixture. Add pea pods. Place a lid over the top and cook until the eggs are desired consistency and veggies tender on medium heat. I like to cook until the eggs are just shy of cooked through and the veggies are tender.  Cooking times vary greatly whether one cooks on a gas or electric stove.  I am slowly learning to cook on my Grandmother's electric beast, while greatly missing my gas stove in the old farmhouse and eagerly awaiting a kitchen renovation!  Enjoy with a cold glass of Sauvignon Blanc.