Off the Eaten Path » scone http://www.offtheeatenpath.net Musings about food and life Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:13:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 our market basket runneth over http://www.offtheeatenpath.net/2005/11/06/our-market-basket-runneth-over/ http://www.offtheeatenpath.net/2005/11/06/our-market-basket-runneth-over/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:02:13 +0000 sprite http://www.offtheeatenpath.net/?p=19 We haven't been home a whole lot in the last few weeks so our cupboard was reminiscent of Mother Hubbard's.

We trekked out into the perfect Indian summer late-Sunday-morning sun to find something to fill our tummies and our souls.

We came home an hour later with:

  • A new kind of soap the scent of which Ruth Ann's daughter Rachel described as lying down on a forest carpet of pine needles and fall leaves
  • A half-gallon of whole milk (Rudi has promised me tapioca this week)
  • A half-gallon of apple cider (because the house smells so nice when it's cooking on the stove)
  • Jicama (a South American root vegetable that I'm eager to try)
  • Turkish eggplant
  • Peppers in fall colors
  • Tomatoes from a greenhouse
  • Broccoli for soup
  • Leeks for soup
  • Gigantic red beets (almost as big as your head!)
  • Suncrisp apples
  • A yellow onion
  • Young, fresh garlic
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Mascarpone
  • Blueberry scones

Next week I'm going to pick up nuts (if they still have some) and winter squash. I just wasn't ready to switch seasons quite yet!

]]> http://www.offtheeatenpath.net/2005/11/06/our-market-basket-runneth-over/feed/ 0 farmers’ market bumper crop http://www.offtheeatenpath.net/2005/07/31/farmers-market-bumper-crop/ http://www.offtheeatenpath.net/2005/07/31/farmers-market-bumper-crop/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:42:38 +0000 sprite http://www.offtheeatenpath.net/?p=13 Rudi went off on a bike ride this morning, leaving me to go the farmers' market myself. This was a mistake.

I started off with the best of intentions and self-restraint, but as the morning wore on (and I got hungrier), the basket began to get heavier until finally it overflowed and I was forced to accept a bag or two, as well.

I came home with:

  • blueberries (the last of the season)
  • peaches
  • nectarines
  • two kinds of lettuce
  • Red Malabar spinach
  • red and orange cherry tomatoes
  • a yellow tomato
  • two green tomatoes (for frying)
  • seconds tomatoes (for gazpacho)
  • Thai eggplants
  • a giant head of cabbage
  • beans (they might be something closely related to a cranberry bean, but I can't remember what kind they said they were)
  • corn on the cob
  • leeks (the first of the season; of course, I forgot to buy brocolli to make soup with)
  • squash (five pounds -- including pattypans, bicolors, dark yellows, and star-shaped ones -- it got cheaper the more you bought and I figured I could make five pounds stretch to two, maybe three, weeks)
  • blueberry scones
  • milk
  • a giant double sunflower
]]> http://www.offtheeatenpath.net/2005/07/31/farmers-market-bumper-crop/feed/ 0 sunday farm market watch: 1 may 2005 http://www.offtheeatenpath.net/2005/05/02/sunday-farm-market-watch-1-may-2005/ http://www.offtheeatenpath.net/2005/05/02/sunday-farm-market-watch-1-may-2005/#comments Mon, 02 May 2005 05:33:19 +0000 Rudi http://www.offtheeatenpath.net/?p=4 Today’s Dupont Circle Freshfarm market brought some fun new things to our kitchen:

  • morels (one of my favorite wild mushrooms - learn about ‘em here)
  • ramps (a wild leek, which is a local delicacy)
  • strawberries (first of the season - yum!)
  • blueberry scones
  • red beets
  • 2% organic milk
  • lilacs (not for eating)

We still have a lot of stuff from last week’s market (including purple asparagus, spring onions, pea shoots and beautiful lettuce), so a lot of good cooking lies ahead.

Any suggestions for recipes?

(Note: most of this was originally posted at randomduck.com.)

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