July 8th CSA & Market Report
I love this time of year. We are finally getting some sweet corn. For this week, the line at the Worthington 
Farmer's Market is longest at Saum Family Farm - it's usually at Gillogly Orchard, but we're a week from peaches - and they only sell one thing: sweet corn by the half or baker's dozen. Say what you will about Ohio - it's full of cowtowns, whatever, but we know sweet corn. Life is better with a little sweet corn. It's only drawback being its love for butter and bacon. Ah, well, everything in life in moderation as they say, right?
My CSA box this week included a bag of lettuce mix which included edible flowers as well - now I have to eat it!, beets, tiny little new potatoes, Swiss chard, 1/2 dozen eggs, tiny little red onions, a head of very young garlic and I'm sure something else. I also bought carrots from a farmer who is new to the North Market this year and whose name I have now 
completely forgotten. But he's youngish with a bald head and big nerdy glass like me. He supplied lovely little carrots which I brought home and ate immediately, with the greens still attached, in the style of Bugs Bunny. So good luck, new farmer whose name I will remember next week, I promise. I also bought some shitakes from Toby Run Farms, of course - they're just so delicious, more beets and cauliflower from Elizabeth Telling, and some green tomatoes.
From the Worthington Market, I bought the aforementioned sweet corn, some bread from Great Harvest (have to eat fried eggs and toast immediately upon returning home), onions and a giant $1 bag of basil from Pop & Judy's farm (try their ruby red popcorn), and a large bunch of kohlrabi for $2. For anyone who still thinks the farmer's market is expensive, I bought kohlrabi from the grocery store the other day and it was $7 for the same amount. So there. I even bought green beans for Husband because I know he likes them, and some broccoli, plums, and kale.
My favorite thing about yesterday's market was the return of Arbor Hill Organics. I was starting to get a little
nervous - and impatient - about their return, fearing for some unforeseen reason they wouldn't be there, but this week they were back. Arbor Hill grows the most wonderful potatoes - tiny little Russian Thumb new potatoes, and later in the year, more varieties. The Russian Thumbs have delicate pink interiors and melt in your mouth. Oh, I have something very special in mind for them, yes indeed.
And that concludes this week's market report. I promise to have some recipes to use some of this wonderful bounty throughout the coming week. As for today, I'll see you at the Ohio Wine and Food festival at the North Market! I'll be the one eating the Jeni's Lemon Yogurt with a glass of Ohio Raspberry Riesling, all couth gone down the drain (Typepad doesn't recognize "couth" as a word, but it is).
