Wow. Could you believe those storms last night? Our electricity went out - strangely, after the storms were over - so I took the oppurtunity to sleep in a few minutes longer, and didn't get to the markets until after 9. I don't plan to do a ton of cooking this week, so I tried to keep things really light this week. That usually proves to be easier said than done.
Just to back up a few seconds, I visited the Pearl Alley market again yesterday and was pleased to see that Blue Jacket Creamery was there, so I bought some Gretna Grillin' Cheese and a container of cheese curds. We are in love with those cheese curds. I also swung by Paige's Produce for a box of peas (pictured above) which I shelled, boiling briefly and ate with just a bit of butter and salt.
But! On with today! First off I stopped into the Clintonville market for my some white bread from This Little Farm (I love that bread; it's very similar to the soft bread I grew up eating in Amish restaurants, which is still my favorite soft-crust breads) and my Wayward Seed Farm CSA. The Wayward Seed fruit CSA this week included 3 quarts of giant strawberries, which I plan to share with coworkers.
The Wayward Veggie CSA included French Breakfast radishes, Heliotrope radishes, white turnips, another kind of purple radish whose name I can't remember, more of those luminous white turnips, bag of lettuce mix, chinese broccoli, tat soi, another braising green whose name I'm not sure of, and little red scallions:
Last night, I had a dream that I was eating red thumb potatoes and today I was a little bit surprised to see the Arbor Hill Organics was at the market with their delicious red thumb potatoes!!!! It's one of my most favorite times of the year, and I was surprised by how early they are this year:
Then I was off to the North Market to pick up my week of the Elizabeth Telling Farms CSA:
which included lettuce (I'm going to have to eat some salad this week; it's a good thing I still have buttermilk-herb dressing left!), lovely white turnips, scallions, stinging nettles (they're dangerously delicious!), strawberries, and sweet pea tendrils. Could there be anything prettier:
I also bought my weekly allotment of Toby Run Shitakes, a few sugar snap peas from Comb's Herbs, and then went inside to buy a good-sized flatiron steak for the grill this week at Blues Creek Farms.
I stopped off at the Greener Grocer and discovered my friend Jen there passing out free milk from Snowville Creamery! In case you haven't tried the milk, it is very tasty. I used it make butter, and I hope to use it to make some cheese sometime soon. They were only asking that if you like their milk, you request your local grocery store to carry the milk for you.
Where, for keeping things light, I sure did get a lot. I even made it home and trimmed and scrubbed all of the radishes and turnips and strawberries so they would be available for eating out of hand.
And what did you get this week?
