Market Day

Josh is in town this week, so we didn't hold back on the buying. Here you see lettuce, muscadine/scuppernogs, and shitakes from Hennessey. Okra and sunchokes from Farmer Greg. Chinese eggplant (I think everyone calls it Japanese...?), sweet peppers, and hakurai turnips from Burge. I'm thinking to do a skillet fry with the okra and sweet peppers, assuming that Josh doesn't eat all the peppers raw as recommended. I may try to save the beet greens and saute those one night also. And the lettuce may go with a buttermilk or green goddess dressing.

We got some good-lookin' turnips at Sun Dogs and a pile of sunchokes from Indian Ridge. We had sunchoke puree the other night at an event and they were delicious. They have a very short season so I bought enough for two meals. Or three. We also picked up these puffer mushrooms from Indian Ridge. They are a little soft when squeezed. They are surprisingly solid all the way through. Michael recommended cooking them with garlic and some olive oil. I'm excited to try them.

A quick stop at Spotted Trotter to chat with Megan about the Streak O Lean event we went to earlier in the week and also to discuss some of their new products. We picked up some fig crepinettes, which look suspiciously like some other stuff they have wrapped in caul fat and actually someone who helped them last night put the wrong labels on! So I put a post-it sticky on them. I'm thinking that either of them will go well with those turnips. Yum.

We stopped off at Pine Street on the way home, something we seem to be doing a lot. We picked up a selection of things including not-pictured smoked liverwurst and Spanish chorizo. I'm pretty interested to try the smoked liverwurst because I was expecting something soft, more like the liverwurst we get from Patak, and this is in a casing and Rusty described it as being half-cooked. We also got some coppa which was delicious. We have had the pre-packaged coppa before (which sat in the fridge for a few days even enough it was sealed) and I found it to be a little tough) but when it comes straight from the slicer, it's delicious. We also bought some of their newest sausage, javawurst. It's a combination of Pine St bacon and Dancing Goats coffee. Perfect for breakfast. :)

Josh was out of town last week and we didn't eat at home like we were supposed to on the nights he was in town, so we have too many things to eat. I put a note on the fridge so that we can keep track. It's a rather lot but I'm pretty excited to eat it all.

Yay.