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| 08.13.04 (6:14 am) [edit] |
One of the joys of summer for me is to visit a farmers market. There are three in this small city - two on Wednesday evenings and one on Saturdays. Is there anything nicer than spending a summer evening strolling through the scents of the market, tasting freshly baked breads and home produced dips, trying perogis with spinach and ricotta or smelling handcrafted soaps. Talking to the people behind the stands - finding out about the products they use and when this morning the vegetables were picked.
This evening was extra special as it was an unplanned trip. We had to run to the grocery store for a few items and also to the hardware store. One of the markets is in the parking lot of Home Depot. How wonderful to pass an hour at the market while my Husband enjoys looking at timber and brooms for the patio!
Luckily I have passed my delight of these markets on to my children. They also love the free tastings and all the sights and sounds and smells that reach us as we walk through.
I treated myself to a feta and spinach cream cheese to go on bagels - they had samples to try and Susannah and I delighted in tasting them all on the little cubes of bread supplied. Strawberry, Saskatoon berries, dill and cucumber. Susie tried the 5 pepper sample and was surprised by it's heat :)
Then we found a big bag of banana potatoes (finger potatoes?) - tiny new potatoes with odd shapes. I boiled them for dinner and we melted butter over them and served them with mixed vegetables and grilled chicken mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm they melted in my mouth. They were so good. The farmers wife sold them to me and it was wonderful to hear her describe their flavour and how freshly pulled from the ground they were.
The wonderful thing about farmers markets here is the wide spectrum of nationalities selling produce - Ukranians, French, German, Polish - all bringing their own cultures and flavours to the foods.
Last year we grew our own fruit and vegetables but this year we are in a new house with no fence to keep the rabbits away and no top soil to grow good vegetables in. I am growing a few pumpkins but that is as far as this years crop will stretch. Next year hopefully we will have our vegetable garden again.
Another few weeks and the farmers markets will be over until next Summer. Back to the grocery stores we will go where despite a bigger choice, the quality and atmosphere just don't compete!
Bws
Jane
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posted by: ScubaDiva (reply)
post date: 08.13.04 (6:32 am)
I love Farmer's Mkts. We have 2 that are open 7 days a week nearby. I never buy any produce at the regular grocery stores anymore.
Then again, I need to set up my own tomato stand b/c I have them coming out of my ears right now. (A single girl planting 16 tomato plants wasn't the most brilliant idea!)
And the best part of the Farmer's Mkt is that they not only offer fresh food, but they are CHEAP!
posted by: Janemma (reply)
post date: 08.13.04 (6:39 am)
hey you should teache yourself a really good pasta sauce - jar it and sell that with all those tomatoes!!!!
How are you doing scubadiva???
posted by: Janemma (reply)
post date: 08.13.04 (6:42 am)
Reply to: ScubaDiva
hey you should teach yourself a really good pasta sauce - jar it and sell that with all those tomatoes!!!!
How are you doing scubadiva???
posted by: ScubaDiva (reply)
post date: 08.13.04 (6:57 am)
Reply to: Janemma
Pasta is evil. (Low carb dieter!)
I'm alive (hack hack). Glad you're back among the tbloggers.
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