Last week’s finds
We had quite an “Errand” filled Friday on 08/10/10, but I felt rather accomplished and quite excited over some finds I made. After dropping off my son at school and taking care of the school fees we drove the post office so that I could
a) ship some books I had managed to sell on ebay and
b) pay for the renewal of my drivers license.
(I did want to get my hair done, but between school bills and drivers license, it’s just going to take me a while to recover from the “red” that came from the summer expenses, so I’m just letting my hair grow and stay with white streaks).
Next stop was our daughters day care, once we had dropped her off we went to the Thrift store (2nd hand), I was looking to dispose of all sorts of things around the flat (either gifts, I can’t replace and that I have nothing to do with, old children’s clothing in good condition that is out grown, or some of my clothing that I no longer want) the store lady will try to sell them at a reduce cost and if successful, I get 50%, if not it goes to charity. Occasionally, I find something I like there and get it. You would be surprised what can turn up there.
And now for our findings:
After the Thrift store we headed to Ra’anana Farmers Market. I normally get mostly organic fruit and vegetables, but recently they haven’t been around, I recon due to low yield. None the less they still have nice produce that is fresh (recently picked).
My first find was, White Carrots! I had them roasted once in England but have never seen them here and it’s been ages since I saw a carrot with its leaves on!
Following the Farmers Market we decided to go to Arcaffe, since the Coffee Bean has closed Ed and I didn’t really have a “default” coffee shop to go to for a coffee or breakfast and I have grown fond of Arcaffe, so I think this will be coffee shop we will now “defaulting too” plus they have wicked deserts.
Anyway, they also sell bread and I saw a Brioche challah, so I decided to buy a loath, as I’ve heard of Brioche on the Food channel, and Ainsley Harriott has had it more than once on ready steady cook, so I wanted to try it, and indeed it is delicious. Thus Brioche is my 2nd find on this day.
Now, there were 2 other findings that day, but it’s been a week and I didn’t have a chance to write about it when it was fresh in my mind.
After Arcaffe we went to pick up our children, I had done other things including chores (all my laundry, dishes and washed the floors), but at present I simply can’t remember what were my other 2 findings, only that it felt like a rather content day.