07/25/2026
A breakfast so good I’ve had it two days in a row. More and more our plates are entirely local and this one is no exception, coffee included!
I am obsessed with these everything bagels from the Divergent Forge. I wasn't sure what to think whenever I saw that the everything seasoning was inside the bagel. I don't know that I could ever go back to a bagel with the everything seasoning on top because there is so much less mess, and it has all of that delicious flavor just inside the bagel.
I am loving the slicing tomatoes right now and putting them on basically every sandwich that I can. I enjoyed this yesterday with a yellow slicing tomato from the Madison County Farmers Market and today with a Sligo Farms slicing tomato, which is one of the most delicious red slicing tomatoes that I've ever tried.
For my coffee, I made an orange mint simple syrup yesterday from the Ironspring Orchard Orange Mint, and it might be my favorite mint syrup I've ever tried. It has such a delicious, bright flavor. I have added it to some Texas Coffee Traders decaf espresso and a little splash of Foundry Farms milk.
I've been amazed to see how our grocery list has changed so significantly since we started the Hub. What used to be about 75% of our groceries coming from the grocery store and about 25% of it being local is now flipped, where 75% of the food (sometimes more in peak produce season) is coming entirely from local sources. We're really only going to the grocery store when we need a specialty item that's shelf-stable or some staple products like olive oil. That's just really satisfying as people who like to cook from home, and we love to eat our own food and have the best quality local ingredients that we can trace directly back to a farm.
Local has always been a priority for Chris and me, but even still, even with going out of our way to buy local, it still wasn’t possible to get as much as we wanted from all of our local sources on a regular basis.
That’s what’s been so game-changing about the hub: just how convenient local food is and being able to reach so many different products. I think right now in the store we have over 600 local products, and it’s just amazing