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What's your favorite...
...purchase at your local farmers markets?
I am going for the first time on Saturday and am super psyched!!
Re: What's your favorite...
Depends on the season, but I really love the $2.50/doz jumbo eggs.
Such pretty colors!
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Wow, that's a nice egg price!
Hmmm... gosh I'm not sure!! Heirloom tomatoes... big bunches of lemon basil - I try to grow my own but its wimpy...super tender mussels... awesome bread... OH! sunflower sprouts, love those..
Depends on the season for me too. That is a nice egg price! Ours are $5/dozen.
I'm *loving* rainbow chard right now. The vendor I buy from, her chard is technicolor. It's so bright, it's hard to describe. They look so beautiful, like they should be displayed in a vase instead of eaten. Something like this:
Garlic scapes are also awesome. It's the flowering part of the garlic, and is something that's the unique pervue of the Farmer's Market shopper. You'll never see it in the supermarket. I make garlic scape pesto, and chop it up for stir-fries. Garlic itself is great too, our vendors are just started to have that. It has such a depth of flavor, not like the grocery store's who's only goal is to keep like Egyptian royalty. I'm really looking forward to eggplants in late July/August, the droopy, smushy ones from the grocery store just can't compare.
My mouth actually just started to water at the mention of Heirloom tomatoes and good lemon basil. And the color of that chard, I've never seen anything like that! My favorite dish is chard simmered down in olive oil, garlic, and tomatoes with some white beans thrown in. I can't wait to see what our market has!! (Dorky - I know...
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Ha, no, I'm sure we all feel the same!
I'm not sure I'll have time to go today, bummer... my closest market is Thursday and Saturdays, and it has different vendors on the different days. Not all of them, but I am more used to the Thursday vendors, so I feel sad when I just go Saturday!
Three weeks ago, morels.
Two weeks ago, peas.
Last week, strawberries.
This week? Who knows! If all else fails on the food front we at least get to socialize Nandi a bit and get some mini doughnuts for breakfast. : )
The best thing I have gotten at the farm I go to this year is Rainier cherries. I had never had them, and they were amazing. Sadly, their season is over, so I am done with them for the year.
I get my eggs direct from the farm for $3/dozen, and I love that I can say hi to the chickens who laid them while I am there!
I am going to a new farmers' market (new to me, that is) that is actually here in my town today...I saw a sign for it on my way to work yesterday and want to go check it out. I hope it's good!
Oh, I forgot another favorite. I LOVE farm-fresh sweet corn. I eat it every day when it is in season.
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Jeff & Em, I am so jealous of your morels. I keep reading about them and really want to try them, but have never seen them at the Farmer's Market, or at WF. Our lonely mushroom vendor only does shiitakes, and I keep making them and keep not liking them. They always end up a soggy mess, they don't grill like portabellos or roast well either
I loved Rainer cherries too, they only had them for a week! A late May frost kills my entire state's cherries, apparently. Boo! We're buying several pounds of apricots to dry tomorrow.