A farming kind of day!

It was a busy weekend down on the funny farm. Yesterday, we started as we usually do on a Saturday. We went to the Farmer's market. As our fridge is bursting at its joints with fruit and veg, we decided to look for other market finds. We found some nice grass feed ground beef, some fresh local tuna, and yes, some fruit and veg. We found some lovely baby red potatoes, cilantro, Asian pears, and this:
Can you guess what veggie this ^ is? Answer at the end of the post. Here's a clue: It's a member of the nightshade family (as are potatoes and tomatoes).

In other news, we had a lovely day full of entertainment yesterday (hence the workday today). We perused bookstores. I got a SHORT haircut which I love. Ari and I went out to dinner with friends and then to see the new film "Brightstar", the love story about Keats. It was beautifully done, but a bit dreary for my taste.

Yesterday's garden harvest: tomatoes, green and burgundy beans, a yellow summer squash, a zucchini, 2 delicata squash, and 2 pumpkins.

Here's today's messy haul from the garden: 250 green beans, 59 tomatoes, 3 tomatillos, a green pepper, 12 carrots, 1 baby pumpkin, 1 zucchini, 2 big handfuls of chives, 1 handful of basil, and not pictured one very large purple cabbage. Tonight, I'm browsing the cookbooks to see what I can make with that cabbage!

Today, we worked on the chicken coop's hen box. The weather is beginning to get cool in the evenings. So, we're finishing up the insulated box before the nasty weather arrives. The cluckers were happily nibbling on our shoes strings as we added pieces to their coop.

We also did lots of gardening. It was a perfect gardening day. The sun was out, but it wasn't hot. We weeded the garden plot and pulled the spent zucchini and tomatoes. We planted some more pumpkins and marigolds. Then, we weeded the berry bush row and around the plants in our future meditation circle. Tomorrow, I'll be replenishing the soil in anticipation of planting all the seedlings that are up in the seed trays. I'll also need to go on slug patrol as we had a few days of rain and they're back in force.

Tonight for dinner, we had a lovely fallish Northwest dinner. We had some fresh halibut (from our local fishermongers) baked in the oven with herbs (from the garden). We added the baby red potatoes (from the market) served with chive (from the garden) butter sauce, and fresh steamed green beans (harvested from the garden this afternoon) with lemon pepper and salt. For dessert, a peach cobbler with peaches from our farm box. It was delish!

Did you guess the mystery veggie yet?

It's a golden eggplant! Soon to be a curried eggplant. Yum!