Farmers Market Haul
Oct. 24th, 2009 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhI love my farmers market. I haven't managed to get to it for the last week or two (being out of town last Saturday), so there were many things I needed to buy today. It's raining slightly, off and on, so all the piles of vegetables were glazed with water, and looking supernaturally shiny and colorful, almost glowing.
My haul: two quarts of juice (one of grape-apple and one of raspberry-apple), half a dozen large brown eggs, fresh butter, four bosc pears, a bunch of broccoli rabe, a bunch of celery, a half-pound of crimini mushrooms, and a stalk of brussels sprouts. I have never had brussels sprouts before (a combination of my parents never having cooked them and the cultural meme that says they are yucky), so they are my culinary experiment for the week. I read somewhere that it's better if you can get them still on the stalk, and so I have something that looks like a giant, green, spiky tree branch, with tiny green balls on it, in my bag. I do have to say they smell delicious. I'm extremely fond of broccoli, so I think I will like these.
My haul: two quarts of juice (one of grape-apple and one of raspberry-apple), half a dozen large brown eggs, fresh butter, four bosc pears, a bunch of broccoli rabe, a bunch of celery, a half-pound of crimini mushrooms, and a stalk of brussels sprouts. I have never had brussels sprouts before (a combination of my parents never having cooked them and the cultural meme that says they are yucky), so they are my culinary experiment for the week. I read somewhere that it's better if you can get them still on the stalk, and so I have something that looks like a giant, green, spiky tree branch, with tiny green balls on it, in my bag. I do have to say they smell delicious. I'm extremely fond of broccoli, so I think I will like these.
