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Farmers Market Month, Day 11: Kale, oranges, kalamata olives; Wednesday Santa Monica Farmers Market
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rachelmanija Mar. 13th, 2019 11:52 am)
rachelmanija Mar. 13th, 2019 11:52 am)Yesterday I made this salad suggested by rushthatspeaks: One of my favorite salads of all time is dark greens (raw kale would work, and I'd suggest either shredded or de-ribbed) with pitted kalamata olives and oranges (peeled, pitted, cut in rounds not segments). Combine the ingredients, drizzle with a little olive oil, and, and this is key, sprinkle with slightly more salt and fresh-ground black pepper than you were originally intending. Best salad.
It was indeed the best salad. I used those amazing mandarin oranges and baby kale, flat leaf variety. Seriously, it was so good I will probably have a reprise tonight.
This morning I visited the Wednesday Santa Monica farmers market. It's much more famous than my regular one but I like mine better, though I met some lovely friendly vendors who admired my hair and matching sweatshirt. Very few vendors took credit cards, and while there were a lot more vendors, the variety of produce was only somewhat better. (The really unusual stuff tends to get scooped up by chefs and is gone by the time I get there.) Also I like having both produce and ready-to-eat food, which the Santa Monica market does not.
I stopped at a stall which had a sign advertising miner's lettuce, but it turned out to have been bought out by chefs.
"But I have stinging nettles!" the greens lady said, in a tone the opposite of the one which people normally use to tell you stinging nettles are in the vicinity. She picked up a bunch with her bare hands.
"Are they... de-stung?" I asked, wondering if there was a way to do that other than the one I knew of, which is to cook them.
"Oh, no," she said cheerfully. "I like getting stung! It's very healthy! Good for arthritis!"
I am definitely coming to an understanding of where all the stereotypes about California come from. But hey. We have great produce.
I bought apricot and strawberry kefir (thick, eat with a spoon style) and cultured butter from the same kefir lady as at the Mar Vista market, as I'd polished off her apple kefir. Also carrots, flowering Chinese broccoli, orange blossom honey, bacon, eggs, and macadamia nuts (grown in California! they had photos).
Today I am baking bread again, from the same recipe I used last time. I have a feeling that will be the best thing I get from this whole experiment. Home-baked bread is the greatest.
rushthatspeaks: One of my favorite salads of all time is dark greens (raw kale would work, and I'd suggest either shredded or de-ribbed) with pitted kalamata olives and oranges (peeled, pitted, cut in rounds not segments). Combine the ingredients, drizzle with a little olive oil, and, and this is key, sprinkle with slightly more salt and fresh-ground black pepper than you were originally intending. Best salad.
It was indeed the best salad. I used those amazing mandarin oranges and baby kale, flat leaf variety. Seriously, it was so good I will probably have a reprise tonight.
This morning I visited the Wednesday Santa Monica farmers market. It's much more famous than my regular one but I like mine better, though I met some lovely friendly vendors who admired my hair and matching sweatshirt. Very few vendors took credit cards, and while there were a lot more vendors, the variety of produce was only somewhat better. (The really unusual stuff tends to get scooped up by chefs and is gone by the time I get there.) Also I like having both produce and ready-to-eat food, which the Santa Monica market does not.
I stopped at a stall which had a sign advertising miner's lettuce, but it turned out to have been bought out by chefs.
"But I have stinging nettles!" the greens lady said, in a tone the opposite of the one which people normally use to tell you stinging nettles are in the vicinity. She picked up a bunch with her bare hands.
"Are they... de-stung?" I asked, wondering if there was a way to do that other than the one I knew of, which is to cook them.
"Oh, no," she said cheerfully. "I like getting stung! It's very healthy! Good for arthritis!"
I am definitely coming to an understanding of where all the stereotypes about California come from. But hey. We have great produce.
I bought apricot and strawberry kefir (thick, eat with a spoon style) and cultured butter from the same kefir lady as at the Mar Vista market, as I'd polished off her apple kefir. Also carrots, flowering Chinese broccoli, orange blossom honey, bacon, eggs, and macadamia nuts (grown in California! they had photos).
Today I am baking bread again, from the same recipe I used last time. I have a feeling that will be the best thing I get from this whole experiment. Home-baked bread is the greatest.
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