OMG I finally made it to the farmers' market! Despite being in California the entire summer, I've only gone a few times over the past few months, largely due to weekends being taken up by parental invasions, hanging out with sister, volunteer training, hanging out with CB and his friends and his family, and wanting to sleep in the few weekends I ( Read more... )

I went to my market today, only to find rows and rows of parked cars where tents and vendors should be. "Ok," I thought, attempting not to freak out, "maybe they are in the next parking lot over ( Read more... )

My dad is here on his quarterly business trip, which means free food for me! We first went to a so-so Japanese place. I've now become the ordering person and tried very hard to persuade my dad that he wanted to get the beef tataki instead of a more boring bento combo of tonkatsu and yaki niku. Alas, no. I think we would have been better off with ( Read more... )

I was going to be conservative this market, given that I keep not finishing all my peaches. But then, there were some tasty white peaches that tempted me, and pluots! I didn't get the dappled ones that I did last time, but I got these gloriously fat purple ones, deep red on the inside. I can't wait till even more of them come out. And oh, if I hadn ( Read more... )

I managed to snag more peas and romano beans from the pea guy, along with some strawberries, raspberries, more heirlooms, and... pluots! Yay pluots! They still don't have my favorite varieties out yet, but I did get one of the dappled ones. I also ventured out and got a scone and a linzer tart, although the scone is too dry and nowhere near as good ( Read more... )

Ok, not really a market just for my birthday, but it is a farmers' market on my birthday!

I do actually still have IBARW posts, but I haven't gotten around to writing them because sophia_helix and actoplasm are visiting me! Yay ( Read more... )

EEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! HEIRLOOMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I think I managed to miss the last of the cherries the two weeks I didn't make it to the market, though. I mean, there were a few baskets left, but the gloriously cherry ones from last time are already gone ( Read more... )

Since the week was so stressful, I decided to spoil myself silly this weekend. Got to see some high school friends yesterday, which meant.... fooding!

( Food porn )

I almost don't want to write about this, because I want to keep the cultural appropriation posts up near the top of my LJ ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got up at an insanely early hour to go to the Madison Farmers' Market with heresluck and oracne. Apparently, the famers' market here is one of the largest in the world -- it's eight blocks long and encircles the capitol building, which is large and white and looks like it belongs in DC, except with beautiful green lawns and trees all around it ( Read more... )