At the market today, I wandered quite a bit to find
eggs but no such luck. It’s because I was slow to get there, and the farm vendors
seemed to be packing up a bit early. Winter market days have arrived.
I did find some good spicy mixed greens from Seeley Farm. Multigrain
bread and apple crisp donuts from Kapnick Orchards. Failed to gather the
tomatoes from Donahee Farm when I saw them at first, and of course someone else
swooped them up while I was busy in my meander. Silly me. Slow, slow.
Though I appreciate that I seem to be settling into a
locavore groove.
So then I came home and mixed into my spicy green salad a
dash of the barley and carrot ginger crème soup that I made yesterday and
decided it was delicious. Strange mix maybe, but I suppose that is the art, yes?
This evening I decided to accept the offer on the table from
Netflix and watch the movie Julie & Julia about a woman in Queens who
decides to cook all of Julia Child’s recipes in a year. Have you seen it? Highly
recommended, it is a very endearing movie, and based on two true life stories. I
am inspired by both of them. Ironically, here I am blogging about it, ha!
In other news, a friend of mine sent me a photo of the newly
planted aloe I gave to him a while back, he repotted the plant into a lovely
blue ceramic pot which will allow the plant to grow even bigger. I appreciate
when the plants I give away are taken care of, in fact I will often check up on
them by asking the folks I’ve gifted them to how their aloe plant is doing. Is this
weird? Well, it’s because I can’t stand the idea that a plant I give away is
meeting its doom, so hey I need to know. I put a lot into taking care of my
plants, the last thing I want to do is send it to an inadequate home.
If you are interested in an aloe plant, I have several, and
will trade for food. Did you know that aloe plants help clean the air? So essentially,
I am trading oxygen and improved indoor air quality for nutritional sustenance.
Seems like a pretty good trade to me, as long as I can trust you to take care
of the plant, which I assume you will, since you likely grew the food I am
trading it for.
Ha well so anyway that’s the gig.
Perhaps I should start writing down my recipes too.
Until then, bon a petit!
