Finally!  My first real trip to the market.  Technically it’s my second, but I was going out of town after the first trip so I wasn’t able to buy as much produce as I would have liked.  This week, however, I had no such constraints and I happily spent every penny of my market budget.  Now I just get to figure out what to do with all of it!  But that probably won’t happen until tomorrow. 



This is a very green week!  I picked up cucumbers, zucchini, green beans, teensy spring onions, and some Bermuda onions which are apparently a sweet variety.  Art was also lured by the call of blueberries, so we picked up a pint of gorgeous bluebs. 



Tomatoes are starting to come to the market and you all know how their siren call affects me.  The gorgeous red tomatoes are “seconds” but they look perfect to me.  I also picked up a bunch of yellow tomatoes, Yukon gold potatoes, two heads of broccoli, two club size zucchini which will be nice for the grill, and three little loaves of cinnamon bread made by the ever awesome Sue Herbert.  I think that gazpacho might be in my future. 

It was a nice day at the market and I’m happy that I’m in town for the next month.  Next week the market is having a big 4th of July bash which should be fun times!  Life is good and local produce helps it to be even more so.

This is our fifth week of the meat CSA and the first pick up after The Great Freezer Disaster of 2011.  I’m not sure when we’ll have our second freezer back in working order, so I only picked up a package of sweet Italian sausage on top of what came in the CSA.  We also had chats with the farmer and it seems like we’ll be getting in on the September slaughter for both cow and pig.  Sadly it looks like we won’t be able to get another pork belly until then so my Ultimate BLT idea will have to be shelved until next year. 



Our CSA included a chicken, ground beef, a gorgeous London broil, maple sausage, and eggs.  In addition, I picked up some sweet Italian sausage.  Once the second freezer gets sorted out, I’ll figure out what we want to do in terms of bulk purchasing other meats.

Since I was out of town again, Art went to the market without me.  As always, he does a great job of marketing, but I am so happy I’ll be home for the next 6 weekends!  Just in time for tomato season to begin too!  I can’t wait for tomatoes. 



This week Art picked up zucchini, yellow squash, potatoes, and Japanese eggplant.  I’m glad he didn’t go too overboard since this week proved to be a short cooking week for us.  Next week, however, we’ll be going crazy at the market.

Our fourth week of the meat CSA!  This was a pig week so we came home with pork chops, bacon, fresh sausage, a ham steak, and a dozen eggs.  Outside of the opening credits in Dexter, I’ve never actually seen a ham steak, so I’m not sure how I’ll be using it yet.  However it gets used, I’m sure it will be delicious!

Finally!  I got to go to the market!  Oh happy day!  I tried not to go overboard because I’ll be heading out of town next weekend and won’t have that much time to cook during the week, but I came home with a few scrumptious things. 



The first potatoes of the year are showing up so I had to get a few pounds of those.  Art has requested that I roast them.  Beets are starting to arrive as well so I picked up two great looking bunches.  I also picked up some spinach and four pounds of sweet Italian sausage since we’ve run out of the sausage from our first half pig.  (Only one pound is shown, the others were already in the freezer.)