Wiscon - Farmers' Market
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oyceterYesterday I got up at an insanely early hour to go to the Madison Farmers' Market with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
Afteroracne and I got coffee and heresluck mocked us for our sleepy faces (I think mine was particularly bad), we set off! And oh, I don't know how to describe it! I mean.... it's a farmers' market for eight entire blocks! And there's tons of cheese, of course, and a stand with maple sugar candy, and several places with maple sugar and honey and beeswax candles and all sorts of cheese curds and flowers and vegetables galore!
Sadly, there were no peas. I was quite devastated.
On the other hand, there was an extremely excellent bakery there, and I got a rhubarb muffin for breakfast (v. v. tasty).
And I got to see pea vines, which are cute and curly with little leaves!
heresluck got morels, which looked quite tasty, and I had cheese curds for the first time. They squeak in your mouth! It's so cool!
I like foods that make noise in my mouth. Unless it's alive. Then it's just sort of disturbing.
Anyway, since I couldn't really buy many vegetables and take them all the way home, given the four-some-hour flight, not counting the layover and etc., I ended up getting preserves from a stand with every possible flavor I could imagine. I had a really, really tough time deciding, because everything looked so good (Blue Damson plum! Strawberry-rhubarb! Many berries!). Also, every time I started deciding,heresluck would give an additional recommendation. It was quite evil.
But I ended up with gooseberry preserves, which are a lovely pale yellow with lots of seeds and tastes a bit like cloudberry preserves, which I first had withcoffeeandink's corn scones, so many good memories and tastes were associated with it. And cherry-rhubarb! And I also got a loaf of bread and goat cheese for eating here, some green salad because I miss vegetables, and peach scones for all the people who aren't quite as insane as me and didn't get up at 6:30 for the market.
Oh! And I got a cute canvas bag that says "Madison Farmers' Market" on it, because I can bring it to my farmers' market, though I do feel vaguely disloyal. The one very odd thing was that there was very little fruit around, though there was tons of asparagus. I suspect this is because California is California, but all the same, I missed the piles of strawberries and cherries and the blueberries.
But! It is a wonderful, wonderful market, and it was so fun walking around and seeing the lovely piles of radishes and carrots and leeks and root vegetables, which were all cute and clean and beautiful! Vegetables! Everywhere!
Ohohohoh!! I nearly forgot.
I saw ramps!!!! I had no idea what they were, but apparently they're wild onions of a sort and can't be domesticated, but they were there, and young and somewhat purple with wide leafy tops, and they smell like garlic and onions, and they were the cutest things ever! I am very jealous becauseheresluck gets to take them home and eat them. I wish I could.
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. After
oracne and I got coffee and heresluck mocked us for our sleepy faces (I think mine was particularly bad), we set off! And oh, I don't know how to describe it! I mean.... it's a farmers' market for eight entire blocks! And there's tons of cheese, of course, and a stand with maple sugar candy, and several places with maple sugar and honey and beeswax candles and all sorts of cheese curds and flowers and vegetables galore! Sadly, there were no peas. I was quite devastated.
On the other hand, there was an extremely excellent bakery there, and I got a rhubarb muffin for breakfast (v. v. tasty).
And I got to see pea vines, which are cute and curly with little leaves!
heresluck got morels, which looked quite tasty, and I had cheese curds for the first time. They squeak in your mouth! It's so cool!I like foods that make noise in my mouth. Unless it's alive. Then it's just sort of disturbing.
Anyway, since I couldn't really buy many vegetables and take them all the way home, given the four-some-hour flight, not counting the layover and etc., I ended up getting preserves from a stand with every possible flavor I could imagine. I had a really, really tough time deciding, because everything looked so good (Blue Damson plum! Strawberry-rhubarb! Many berries!). Also, every time I started deciding,
heresluck would give an additional recommendation. It was quite evil.But I ended up with gooseberry preserves, which are a lovely pale yellow with lots of seeds and tastes a bit like cloudberry preserves, which I first had with
coffeeandink's corn scones, so many good memories and tastes were associated with it. And cherry-rhubarb! And I also got a loaf of bread and goat cheese for eating here, some green salad because I miss vegetables, and peach scones for all the people who aren't quite as insane as me and didn't get up at 6:30 for the market.Oh! And I got a cute canvas bag that says "Madison Farmers' Market" on it, because I can bring it to my farmers' market, though I do feel vaguely disloyal. The one very odd thing was that there was very little fruit around, though there was tons of asparagus. I suspect this is because California is California, but all the same, I missed the piles of strawberries and cherries and the blueberries.
But! It is a wonderful, wonderful market, and it was so fun walking around and seeing the lovely piles of radishes and carrots and leeks and root vegetables, which were all cute and clean and beautiful! Vegetables! Everywhere!
Ohohohoh!! I nearly forgot.
I saw ramps!!!! I had no idea what they were, but apparently they're wild onions of a sort and can't be domesticated, but they were there, and young and somewhat purple with wide leafy tops, and they smell like garlic and onions, and they were the cutest things ever! I am very jealous because
heresluck gets to take them home and eat them. I wish I could.Tags:
Random drive-by commentage
Mon, May. 29th, 2006 03:01 pm (UTC)If so, hello senpai. :D If not, well, er, disregard the rest of this comment. ^^;;;;;;
(What year did you graduate, out of curiosity?) I'm on my second-to-last official school day in the Bilingual Department (senior finals on Thursday and Friday, grad ceremony on June 10th), will be going to college in America (like pretty much all the rest of us >_>;;) and... er... Jesus, I'm going to leave Taiwan, I still can't believe it. XD
Uhhyeah, that's about it... weirdo fleeing back to her own corner now... ^^;