Local Food Shopping

(The start of our family suburban farm)

So how did we do at the Saturday farmer's market?

For fruit, we found gooseberries, red currents, and an Asian honey dew melon.

For veggies, we found a beautiful eggplant, okra, tomatoes, white potatoes, fingerling potatoes, leeks, amaranth greens, bok choy, carrots, pickling and slicing cucumbers, chinese long beans and jalapeno/green chili/pablano peppers.

For herbs, we found basil, cilantro, and Italian parsley and for dairy, yogurt and basil-sundried tomato sheep cheese. For meat, we found Italian lamb sausages and just because, a jar of honey.

After the market, Anni and I went to a local farm and picked raspberries. She was very red after that. We spent the afternoon making jam; 6 jars of raspberry-red current, using the last of our sugar, and 4 jars of gooseberry, with local honey. This is our third session of jam making. During our first, we made blueberry jam and mixed berry for the next go around.

Dinner tonight was a wonderful stirfry with the long beans from the market, peapods from our garden, and spotted prawns from the Salish sea (better known as the Puget Sound). Delicious!

Tomorrow, we're making pickles!