neotoma

Empanadas (masaco and nutellla), rosemary plant, yellow sweet cherries, tart cherries, red raspberries, black raspberries, almond croissant, bacon-and-gruyere wheel, sugar peas in pods, carrot-walnut mini-cake, chocolate raspberry mini-cake, walnut-chocolate cookies, and locally grown brown rice.

Two nasturtium plants, a six-pack of marigolds, a flank steak, a quart of mango gelato, a half-pint of cherimoya gelato, bacon-gruyere wheel, fruit tart, Montaintop Moon cheese, dark walnut cookies, 2 pints of peas in the pods, 2 quarts of strawberries, dandelion greens, swiss chard, lovage, and mizumi greens.

Ramps! (I am definitely taking some to Texas), a porterhouse steak, new potatoes, sweet potatoes, a bacon-gruyere pastry wheel, an almond croissant, a lemon curd turnover, 3 arugula plants, a curry plant, a dill plant, a lemon thyme plant, a serving pack of frozen lavender-lemon verbena lemonade and an unsweetened packet to make another 1.5L of it (will take to Texas next week, because the water tastes of mud and the temperature is already in the 80s), three pink lady apples (may take to Texas and make Dad an apple-shallot tart) and a boule of sourdough bread.

Compliments:Two different people stopped me to tell me that they not only liked my packbasket, but my entire look, plus one of vendors wanted to know about my monarobot Diplocaulus as a Mayan glyph pin, and the apple person said I "looked great, as always".
Today's look:
dusty sage green canvas jacket from Talbots (at least 6 years old, needs its buttons replaced because 2/3rds of them have come off)
made-to-measure flared jeans from eShakti
Metropolis belt from Jon Wye
Godzilla tab socks
Oboz hiking shoes
the Velvet Night button-down shirt from MorningWitch over a light green racer-back tank from Talbots
the Diplocaulus pin on the jacket lapel
a straw panama gambler hat
a trapper's packbasket that I bought at least 20 years ago from a fur-trapper's festival
a necklace of amethyst, sugalite, and south american jade beads I made for myself years ago
these Zenni cats-eye glasses I buy again every time my prescription changes

Spicy mix microgreens (arugula, broccoli, radish), lemon tart, almond croissant, mushroom leek pastry, Turkish vegetarian bean soup, rice pilaf, beet salad, 1/2 of mixed mushroom, dried mushrooms, leeks, beets, pear ginger turnover, walnut-carrot cake, molasses waffle, peanut butter whoopie pie, gingerdoodles, peanut butter cookies, and a boule of jalapeno cheddar bread.

Apple-pecan strudel, rump roast, small savoy cabbage, parsnips, beets with their greens, 1/2 gallon of creamline milk, fingerling potatoes, a bosc pear, apples (gold rush, granny smith, braeburn), lavender herbal tea.

I bought the rump roast because I really want to have sauerbraten, and I'll have to make it myself.

Orange beets with their greens, snacking peppers, 2lb of purple peppers, a loaf of country white bread, gingerdoodle cookies, chocolate walnut cookies, bosc pears, arlet apples.

Went to Small Press Expo yesterday with greenygal. Among other things, I picked up some hockey comics for my small cousins.

Today, I went to the other market, so I have:

Apples, pears, plums, rasperries, scallions, chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms, chocolate milk, peach yogurt smoothie, and a sugar cube canteloupe.

Watermelon lemonade, miyatake mushrooms, lemon tart, gruyere-bacon wheels, kouign aman pastry, fresh mozarella, a baguette, ufo purple chile peppers (which may be too spicy for any use I can make of them -- possibly one chopped fine instead of 3 serranos in peach salsa?), 3/4 lb of pickling cucumbers, a red bell pepper, chocolate chip walnut cookies, raspberry crumble squares, chewy ginger cookies, and cranberry ginger cookies.

I also have food from my friends overflowing CSA box: a slicer tomato, an asian eggplant, a bag of basil, beets, carrots, a coneheaded cabbage, and 2 melons (possibly sugar cube melons -- they're about the size of grapefruits).

I've roasted two heads of garlic and will be making a toasted caprese sandwich in a moment. I hope to make some muffin-cup frittatas with the mushrooms tonight and get a start on red-and-butter pickles (just like bread-and-butter pickles, but with more hot peppers).

Peach lemonade, brioche hamburger buns, blueberries, apricots, plums, cherry tomatoes, pickling cucumbers, gruyere-bacon wheel, lemon tart, French macrons (earl grey, lemon strawberry, creme brulee, pistachio, mango tajin, strawberry cheesecake), a stuffed bischoff cookie, smoked bacon, chocolate walnut cookies, 3 samosa handpies, 1 chicken and broccoli handpie, a carrot cake slice, a buttermilk cake slice, a chewy ginger stack, a lemondoodle stack, a traditional chocolate chip stack, and a box of cookie bloopers.

Blueberry lemonade, yellow and red sweet cherries (1 qt qnd 2 qt -- I plan to make cherry ketchup), dill plant, 2 basil plants, lavender plant, rosemary plant, a quart of chocolate milk, a dozen eggs, Jersey Gold (gouda style) cheese from Spring Gap Mountain Creamery, 2 Puerto Rican Style Chicken handpies, 2 Moroccan Spiced Chickpea handpies, a carrot cake slice, a lemon doodle stack, a chewy ginger stack, and a CSA medium share from Spiral Path Farm -- 2 slicer tomatoes, 2 cups of sugar snap peas, 2 cups of snow peas, 1 summer squash, 1 zucchini, 2 cucumbers, a bunch of garlic scapes, parsley, basil, red beets, and 2lb of potates.

I picked up a friend's CSA share this week (they're out of town and didn't want it wasted) and it reminded me why I don't buy one -- even with a medium share instead of a full share, it's too much food for me. I'd have to be living with another person for this amount of food to make sense.