farmers' market: at my favorite vegetable stand

[heresluck]

There are a couple of new people working at my favorite vegetable stand this year. Three weeks into the market and they already know me.

the new guy: Hey, it's the ramp queen!
the new woman: That is a great hat.
h.l: Thank you. Are the ramps still three for five?
tng: Of course. What did you do with them last week?
h.l: Pizza again. Oh, and then I

Comments

[renenet]

You are my favorite. That is all.

[heresluck]

Well thank goodness. If you wouldn't put up with this stuff I don't know who would.

[falzalot]

Oh man, I so need a neighbor like you. :-> I wouldn't know what to do with food from a farmer's market if it bit me.

So now that you've explained what ramps are, what are criminis and morels?

[heresluck]

Crimini (or cremini) mushrooms are baby portobello mushrooms. They're the size of large white (button) mushrooms, but they're brown like portobellos. They aren't as steaklike as portobellos, but they're denser and richer than white mushrooms. They're extremely good grilled (great for shishkebab), and can be used just like white mushrooms; I particularly like them cooked very plain (just a little oil or butter and some herbs) and tossed with pasta, which shows off their flavor. And they're fun on fancy-shmancy pizza, with goat cheese and pine nuts and so on.

Morel mushrooms are rather odd-looking wild mushrooms that are difficult to describe but extremely delicious. They're in season very briefly, and they're rather expensive, but they're absolutely divine. They should NOT be used like regular mushrooms. Some people make a side dish of them, but personally I find them a little overwhelming to eat straight. I tend to turn them into a sauce of some kind, which has the added advantage of making them go further; it doesn't take much morel

Nooooo!

[quine]

You're making me hungry, and I don't even like leeks, mushrooms, spinach or asparagus, or know what morels and criminis are.

Grrr. You're making me want green things. Why couldn't you be a chocolate person?

yes!

[heresluck]

Well, I am *also* a chocolate person. But I love vegetables with the fervor and righteousness of the recently converted, even though the conversion has in fact long since ceased to be recent.

Anyhow, it's only fair; your icon makes me want to see The Wings of the Dove again, and I didn't even like it all that much.

(If you want info about crimini and morel mushrooms, see my response to falzalot one comment up.)

Re: yes!

[quine]

Hee! Thank you. I will.

I think!

[_swallow]

That you should take a picture of your great hat, because now I am curious. And that you should invite those people over to dinner. And that you should invite me over to dinner, but I will probably not attend because of that whole tedious several-states-over thing.

I love reading your market reports.

Downloading the new vid-- anticipation, anticipation!

Re: I think!

[heresluck]

As a matter of fact I do have a photo around here somewhere of me in the great hat -- which is just an old-fashioned gray tweed driving cap that used to be my grandfather's, worn backwards in a way that is not so in style as once it was but which continues to suit me.

As for dinner: I have a long list of planned dinner parties with people I *know* to get through before I start inviting people off the street, even charming vegetable-selling people off the street. You will of course be bumped to the top of the list whenever you are in town; consider it a standing invitation.

I look forward to hearing anything you have to say about the new vid!