If you’ve read any part of this blog in the past, it’s certainly no mystery that I frequently troll local farmer’s markets. Or if they’re local to you, trust me I’ll drive. There’s something about people with dirty fingernails offering me food. I would never dream of it anywhere indoors, but along a strip of...
The farmer’s market is quickly getting over populated with produce. Corn, carrots, beans, autumn strawberries, bushels of cucumbers, peppers, romas and the last of the over sized heirloom tomatoes. These are enormous visions of beauty. Flavours of my childhood garden, only in colours, I never then could have imagined. I kind of feel for the...
What’s lightening quick, goes with just about anything and uses up even more of the overflow of zucchini? The title gave it away, didn’t it? Looking for dinner inspiration, I gazed over my garden. I grew some of my own stuff this year, but now my garden is getting that late August hue of tan...
I gathered up and headed out to one of our favourite Summer Farmer’s Markets. We have an old fashioned farm here in the city and every Tuesday most of the organic vendors within a 200Km radius lay out their wares. The food is fresh and I’ve learned the hard way that you don’t want to...
Seeking out yet another farmers market here in the city, I was a bit surprised by the standard fare of field tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes until I passed the last vendor of the lot. There I found baby courgettes, quarter sized, tender Sunburst squash and a rainbow of heirloom grape tomatoes. It wasn’t a tremendous...
