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oyceterOMG 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 don't have something planned.
Unsurprisingly, I have something Sunday (and was going to have something today, but it got canceled), so instead of hightailing it to the bigger Sunday market, I have settled for the smaller Saturday one instead.
PEOPLE! I DID NOT MISS ALL THE PEAS!!!!!!!!
Granted, I got them once or twice before, but there's been a remarkable lack of Sunday afternoons shelling peas while watching Good Eats and munching on assorted market goodies. And these are probably on the tail end of the season, but I tried some and they weren't starchy, so hopefully my entire batch is good.
Also! I have been dying for stone fruit this summer; I got cherries before much of the busy-ness kicked in, but there's been very few peaches or pluots. This makes me sadface! T_T I was scared they'd be pretty much gone already, and it is still the tail end, but I got some good yellow peaches (Summerset) and pluots (Flavor King). YAY! The white peaches at Trader Joe's are a good stopgap measure, but damn I missed my market.
And I got some ears from the last batch of white corn!
ALSO! TOMATOES!!!!!!!
I feel that is all that needs to be said on that subject.
... except now I clearly must make it to the bigger Sunday market next week, as it has the tomato guy with samples.
I am fairly certain missing the market regularly is why this summer hasn't felt much like summer to me; on hearing that everyone's starting school again, I am constantly surprised because I feel it should still be May or something.
Unsurprisingly, I have something Sunday (and was going to have something today, but it got canceled), so instead of hightailing it to the bigger Sunday market, I have settled for the smaller Saturday one instead.
PEOPLE! I DID NOT MISS ALL THE PEAS!!!!!!!!
Granted, I got them once or twice before, but there's been a remarkable lack of Sunday afternoons shelling peas while watching Good Eats and munching on assorted market goodies. And these are probably on the tail end of the season, but I tried some and they weren't starchy, so hopefully my entire batch is good.
Also! I have been dying for stone fruit this summer; I got cherries before much of the busy-ness kicked in, but there's been very few peaches or pluots. This makes me sadface! T_T I was scared they'd be pretty much gone already, and it is still the tail end, but I got some good yellow peaches (Summerset) and pluots (Flavor King). YAY! The white peaches at Trader Joe's are a good stopgap measure, but damn I missed my market.
And I got some ears from the last batch of white corn!
ALSO! TOMATOES!!!!!!!
I feel that is all that needs to be said on that subject.
... except now I clearly must make it to the bigger Sunday market next week, as it has the tomato guy with samples.
I am fairly certain missing the market regularly is why this summer hasn't felt much like summer to me; on hearing that everyone's starting school again, I am constantly surprised because I feel it should still be May or something.
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Tue, Sep. 13th, 2011 03:26 am (UTC)I am currently boggling over our homophobia expose being Twittered by Neil Gaiman! He actually crashed Publishers Weekly!
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Tue, Sep. 13th, 2011 03:37 am (UTC)OMG must catch up on expose stuff... have been researching ebooks all weekend.