Farmer's market!

[oyceter]

I have more peas!

1. I managed to get up before noon today to go to the farmer's market, spurred largely by the desire for more fresh peas. The getting up before noon bit is actually quite an accomplishment for me, heh. I have:
   
   
   
   • Two (2) loaves of bread, one herb and one olive. Fresh baked bread! Artisan bakeries!
   
   
   • Two (not enough) bags of fresh English peas, which haven't even made it to the fridge because I am going to shell them while watching Food Network and cook them right away because they are too tasty.
   
   
   • One (1) red onion, for cooking with the peas.
   
   
   • One (1) small sour cherry pie. This place has really great crusts. Last week I got two (too many) small strawberry-rhubarb pies, which I ate. They also have boysenberry and pumpkin and other ones that I also must try!
   
   
   • One (1) tub of salmon spread, on yuneicorn's rec.
   
   
   • Five (yay!) ears of white corn.
   
   


2. I did not get (but desperately wanted to) heirloom tomatoes, small potatoes for broiling, fruit (*sniffs* But I still have lots left over from last week's trip), artichokes (I stared, but resisted), flowers, jams, naan, meat pasties (but fannishly got one!), fresh herbs, and many other things.


3. I love the farmer's market! It is so cool! There are fresh peas! Yes, I am still extremely excited about the peas. So many fresh fruits and vegetables, and it actually makes me want to cook very simple vegetable dishes, and people making things like preserves and samosas and bread and pies and it is so cool! *gibbers incoherently and squees*


4. On another note, my Starbucks orders are getting slightly ridiculous now: "Tall green tea frappucino with whipped cream but no melon syrup, extra blended." The extra blended is because I suspect there's something wrong with the blender at the Starbucks right next to the apartment. I kept getting giant ice chunks at the bottom of my frappucinos, and they got stuck in my straw, which was irritating. I always feel bad for having these ridiculous orders, but I am picky about my green tea fraps.


5. I just had some herb bread with salmon spread, and it is ridiculously good. The bread is so incredibly fresh and herb-smelling, perfect soft yet spongy and chewy texture and wonderfully yeasty, and the salmon spread is like those flavored schmears, but better (which is saying something, because cream cheese is so, so good). fannishly is eating her meat pasty, and we are both looking very silly because we're jumping around in excitement about our food finds. Mmmmm food bliss.


6. I just noticed my living room matches my green tea frappucino! Hee!

I go forth now to shell peas. And I have a food icon now! Joy!

(I hope I haven't scared everyone off with my extreme pea enthusiasm. But... peas!!!!111!!eleventyone!!exclamationpoint!)

Comments

[cychi.livejournal.com]

I will currently suspend my disbelief and will imagine peas to be yummy. How is this possible? I will have to steal some from you some time!

[oyceter]

But they really are! Only when fresh though! They're actually incredibly sweet and sort of crunchy, not at all mushy or bland. Hee, I shall have to feed you some when you are here ;).

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm definitely trying fresh peas now.

[oyceter]

Yes! You should! They are good!

I now seem to be on a mission to convert all my friends to fresh peas, of all things.

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

A great kind of scary.

I stopped by a local farmer's stand on Friday, fresh corn (I am an Ohio kid this is corn season!) and second round strawberries, the tiny ones that burst in your mouth (the every bloomers are actually twice blooming and hitting their second blast. The dogs ate mine.) And then I picked up a fresh cherry crunch pie for Ben to apologize, sorta, over this weeks spat about the car.

The dogs have also mowed down my lettuce. I just feel lucky they don't like the herbs. Or roses. I am sure they ate more than half the raspberries. I caught Cole up on his hind legs a couple of times.

August is funny too. The Harvest, the roses and flowers throwing out their second blooms, it's that lush cush generous time but reminds also me that it's gathering and storing time too, and that next month we will be into fall already. It gets cool at night now, and dark earlier, and I am reminded that I haven't had my furnace cleaned yet and those kinds of things.

And that next month there will be Apples!

[oyceter]

Ohhhh I am jealous! I adore corn! I especially adore white corn season, which it now is. It's funny, I've started thinking of summer not by stone fruits showing up in stores, but having bins of white corn to go through in my local Safeway.

And oh, apples!

I love that you have a garden and am quite envious ;). It must be so lovely to be able to go outside and really see the seasons changing!