Weekly Farmer's Market Report

It was a quick trip in and out today but here's the scoop. I picked up another case of blueberries to freeze. The vender said there is only a week or two left of prime blueberry picking so go and get 'em while you can. I also picked up a box of peaches to freeze. Pee Dee Orchards has winblown peaches, or a name close to that , which don't turn brown when you cut them. She said they would only have them another week or two as well. I picked up some of the purple and cream sweet peppers I talked about last week. I'm going to grill them. I'll report back. Happy eating everyone!

Weekly Farmer's Market Report

I was so excited when I got home Thursday morning about what I'd found at the farmer's market, I wrote a note to myself so I wouldn't forget anything. Just found the note, which means I didn't write anything on our blog yet. I love being old! I forgot to mention last week that I found brussel sprouts. The vendor who had them said they usually only have them on the weekends, which is true. She didn't have any on Thursday. There were several varieties of vegetables I hadn't seen before. There were purple and creamy white sweet peppers. I'm going to plan a meal with them next week just to try them. There were all sorts of eggplant. It comes in a variety of shapes and colors. There was one called "pink tongue", or something like that, which looked just like a long skinny tongue. The skin is very thin and so my husband said he'd give eggplant another go (see note below). There were some beautiful heirloom tomatoes. I also bought fresh basil. My car smelled heavenly going home. The woman who sells herbs brings cilantro and dill on the weekends. She said she'd bring me a bunch of each next Thursday.

The big news of the week is that this is blueberry season. I was tipped off when I saw prices for flats of blueberries. Blueberries are so easy to freeze. Check for stems and bad berries, put in baggies and freeze. I put rounded cups of blueberries in ziploc sandwich baggies, lay four flat in a gallon size ziplog baggy, put two of those on a cookie sheet, and then put the whole thing in the freezer. Which reminds me - I need to go get my cookie sheets out of the freezer now that the berries are frozen.

As a follow up to last week's blog, I learned that I actually do like eggplant, but my husband does not. The recipe in "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" was really good. I think it needs to cook longer than she says, and it could be spiced up a little more. But I really liked it.

Farmer's Market Weekly Report

I was so excited when I got home from the Farmer's Market but just realized I never reported back! Eggplant is here! I tried cooking eggplant years ago but didn't like it enough to make it a regular part of our menus. They looked so pretty I decided to get two and make the eggplant recipe out of the Kingsolver book. I'll let you know what I think. There were also green peppers, and the peaches are freestone. We are having the same experience as Katie (see her 6/28 post). Everything is bursting with flavor! It's like fireworks in our mouths!