Food News

[brigdh]

Yesterday's farmer market goodies: a half-gallon of apple cider, a half-gallon of pear cider (from different orchards, so I can compare!), a jar of fresh tomato sauce, a pint of green zebra tomatoes (I am stocking up on them, buying lots and freezing them, before tomatoes disappear from the market for winter), two quarter-pounds of fresh cheese (an Aged Bloomsbury, which sort of tastes like a sharp, nutty piave, and a Dutch Farmstead, very creamy and rich), and a stalk of brussels sprouts (photographic evidence here).

I also have exciting weird beans to try, as I got an order from Rancho Gordo which arrived last week. So far I have tried the Vaquero Beans, which are absolutely gorgeous, mottled black and white and so shiny and bright. They got gray in the cooking, unfortunately, but were delicious, like black beans but more flavorful. I've also had the Scarlet Runner beans which, I swear to God, tasted exactly like baked potatoes with bacon. It was a little eerie.

Today it is warm for the season, but the light is winter light- hazy, dusty and yet too bright, white and glaring. But as much as I disapprove of winter, it does lend itself to strange effects of light: people climbing the subway stairs up into the open always look like they're vanishing into the sun, into light solid and full of dust motes.

Comments

[steelehearts.livejournal.com]

what's a green zebra tomato? sounds funny... i see this green and white striped fourlegged round thing that snorts and... oh dear. what *is* it? :D

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee! They're a kind of tomato: a little smaller than regular tomatoes, but bigger than plum tomatoes, green with yellow-white stripes, and oh so tasty. I adore them; they're my absolute favorite kind of tomatoes. They're a little spicier than regular tomatoes- sort of like a cross between a tomato and a bell pepper.