neotoma

Crab dip, a cheese biscuit, dark chocolate walnut cookies, an arnold palmer made with watermelon lemonade, grapes, 4lbs of peaches, figs, salt-&-pepper pistachios, and my friends' CSA box because they are out of town this week: 5 ears of corn, a beefsteak tomato, a pint of cherry tomatoes, a watermelon, some other kind of melon (or maybe squash?), a zucchini, a bell pepper, two large jalapenos, and some bagged salad -- that was all from a 'medium share' box that is intended for 1 to 3 people for a week.

I might cut up the watermelon for lunch this week, and I will roasted the corn in the oven tonight, but I'm going to have to think about what to do with the rest of it.

Two chicken empanadas, a mango tart, a jar of pickled mushrooms, a dill plant, red and pink raspberries, sour cherries, sweet cherries, blueberries, a loaf of struan bread, chocolate chip cookies, dark chocolate walnut cookies, nectarines, yellow peaches, lemon-ricotta waffles, peach cakette, and a box of mixed yellow and purple plums

Pie cherries (pie♫ cherries♫), red and yellow sweet cherries, methley plums, red raspberries, 3 clingstone peaches, 3 quarts of strawberries, a pint of peach yogurt smoothies, a pint of mixed berry yogurt smoothie, asparagus, lemon-ricotta waffles, cherry cakelette, peach cakelette, a loaf of french country bread, a guava tart, two chicken empanadas, red and yellow onions, and cucumber-lime paleta (that didn't even last through the walk back to the Metro, it was so hot I consumed it immediately).

Bacon-gruyere wheel pastry, spinach feta pastry, lemon tart, a dozen eggs, strawberries, spring onions, potatoes, goat cheese curds, strawberries lemonade, cranberry beans, 4lbs of potatoes, shelled black walnuts, pecans, spicy garlic pistachios, apple schnitz, and Lucy Glo apples.

Lucy Glo apples, shallots, white potatoes, a small head of cabbage, carrots, celery, spicy bratwurst, thick-cut bacon, cranberry chevre, a loaf of whole wheat bread, a gallon of lavendar-lemonade, a pint of shiso-orange mint lemonade, peanut butter cookies, dark chocolate walnut cookies.

Thick-slice bacon, a dozen eggs, bacon-gruyere wheel, spinach pastry, lemon tart, rosemary pull-apart rolls, gingerdoodle cookies, a quart of chicken & dumpling soup, a quart of pickled red onions, cranberry chevre, farmhouse goat cheese, apple cider, apples (Nittany, Braeburn, Stayman), shallots, red onions, garlic heads, white turnips, grilled spiced olives, Greek country mixed olives, and a pound of black beans.

I talked briefly with an elderly woman who had just moved into the area and was attending the market for the first time -- she was trying to find organic apples. I don't think you can really grow apples here as a market farm organically. There are just too many critters that love to chomp on apples here, but I hope she finds something she is willing to buy.

I plan to make another apple-shallot pie tomorrow; I'll be working extra to get ready for the quarterly report at work, but I am also likely to be snowed in, since the forecast is snow, 1 to 5 inches.

My fridge failed Monday and it took the housing office until Wednesday (2 maintenance requests, 2 follow up phone calls, and 1 email to the property mananger cc'd to the county councilor's aide for housing issues) to get it replace. I had to throw out everything but hard cheese and vinegar-based condiments, so I shopped a little more aggressively than usual this week.

I reported through the apartment complex's online service request page that there was water dripping from my bathroom ceiling fan on Sunday 02 Nov 2025, and got no response.

Yesterday (Friday, 07 NOV 2025), I emailed the PM and got the maintenance staff (3 guys names Noel, Vladimir, and Martin (the supervisor) who confirmed that there was leakage and went upstairs to figure out what was causing it.

Apparently my upstairs neighbor's bathtub leaks.

There are plumbers here now, and they're going to have to take my bathroom ceiling apart.

Further documentation as this progress.

Gingerdoodle cookies, dark chocolate walnut cookies, a baguette, mozzarella, slicing tomatoes, hardy kiwi fruit, pint of pickled red onion, pint of horseradish dill pickles, shisho-orange mint lemonade, lavender-lemon verbena lemonade sour packs, 4 lbs of golden potatoes, 3 heads of garlic, Lucy Glo apples, Spitzenburg apples, shishito peppers, bacon-gruyere wheel, and a lemon tart.

Also, the local No Kings rally was along the street at the market -- there were 3 inflatable shark costumes, 2 unicorns, at least 2 guys in tricorn hats (one was in a complete outfit, probably a RevWar re-enactor). Cars driving by kept honking in support.

I was wearing my magnolia shirt from Morning Witch, my green canvas jacket, flared jeans, and fake snakeskin shoes. I got a number of compliments.

Leek-mushroom turnover, lemon tart, hard kiwifruit, American persimmons, bell peppers, purple UFO peppers, shennadoah pears, honeycrisp apples, pink pearl apples.

I'm going to try making salsa morada with the UFO peppers, and see if applesauce made with the pink pearl apples has a pink tingle to it.

8lbs of peaches, black amber plums, pluots, figs, a quart of whole milk, goat mozzarella, baguette, roma tomatoes, bell peppers, peach and plum cake slices, and walnut dark chocolate cookies.

I'm making a toasted caprese sandwich again and will be making peach salsa mid-week.