91!!! Garlic scapes and romanesco
So i got a box of garlic scapes
Tonight we did all veggie with lemon cucs
Tomatoes with feta and basil
Roasted scapes and onions
Roasted romanesco and onions
farmers market
Return to the Santa Monica Farmers Market
Finally back to the market after nearly 4 months…we tried two weeks ago but protests had it closed down (the same neighborhood had had looters)…there are still lots of boarded up windows:
But the market was busy even though its way spread out for distancing:
On of the prizes and purposes for the trip was mara des bois…from Harrys Berries
Pricey but he loves them.
I went for tomatoes and they finally are debuting:
Also found were lemon cucumbers and german butterballs.
And our first goat cheese in a long while.
This is the closest to normal i have felt in a while even with masks and spacing. I needed a brief moment to be happy….
Stuffed Red Peppers
I have already misplaced the recipe for the red pepper recipe this week…but i made it! It was an ATK recipe challenge email featuring season produce
I slightly mashed some canned garbanzos
Added capers, lime juice, olive oil, gluten free bread crumbs, garlic and crumbled goat cheese.
Roasted the pepper
Stuffed it..added some goat cheese on top with and olive oil drizzle.
Baked it
Served it up with a pile of salad
Recent food finds
I am constantly taking pictures of food that i see and i have fallen so far behind in sharing lately. Im going to try and do a catch up of the last couple weeks of things that I thought were fun enough to share. Passionflowers are blooming, figs and squash are in season. We are like a week or two away from the Southern California summer cornucopia of ridiculous bounty.
My neighbor at the community garden has a full on passionflower wall growing. I have never had the fruit. I was planning to trellis one in my backyard this year but a young plant wont survive our july vaca so after we return.
The van nuys german deli is sooo close to my house:
Usually i will get two smoked brats, 2 swiss and 2 neurenberger for the 2 of us and simmer in saurkraut and wine…
Head cheese anyone?
Does everyone know that i love marzipan! British cadbury chocolate and marzipan enrobed in dark chocolate are two wonderful things.
Gooseberries!
If you zoom in, you will notice flavors of soy sauce in this chinese whisky
Fresh almonds
Dragonfruit
Banana blossoms
No name whiskey shots for your carry on bag
I thoroughly enjoy stroopwafel and if you have had an am flight on United, you have been gifted with a stroopwafel…not sure of the cocktail i would make with this
Last weekend was a roadtrip to the BH branch of Laduree to get the much coveted Barbie box
And of course view the special promo display dolls
Macaron!!!!!
Its fig season! I have some in the fridge waiting to be covered with cheese and balsamic
Its still peach season
Jim is scoping out his fav variety of strawberry
Tomatoes are breaking in. Next week will be full blown tomato explosion
Look close…bok choi and cress flowers
The aquash in unstoppable now.
So that updates like 2 weeks of non restaurant/non home cooking pics….home tou saw something fun or unique.
Third street promenade farmers market
We are blessed to have a year round growing season, and we are on the verge of the moment where the most of those riches shine! Saturday at the santa monica third street promenade farmers market, the following are a prelude to the full summer bounty:
Figs! I forgot to take a pic before i cut up the ripe ones…it was a nice basket of 1/2 ripe and half ripe in a day or two
My fav farmers market cheese for years…i got the mozzarella and asiago…dont for one minute think its traditional mozza or asiago…they surely have their own style . Spring hill jersey cheese from nocal.
Lemon cucumbers
Baby red leaf heads
The very first of the tomatoes
Citrus!!!
Cucs abound
Herbs
Its still cherry and peach season
Jim Taylor waits for these puppies all year…high price, small fruit, big taste
One years i will buys these and spend the day shucking them. Can you imagine fresh garbanzos!?!
So tonight the figs will be sharing a plate with goat cheese and a Bordeaux cherry balsamic ibought in palm springs
Santa Monica Farmers Market today
Farmers Market today was rife with new surprises.
First i ran into my favorite white eggplants
The remnants of fig season…guavas
My favorite vendor with a huge array every week
Fresh ginger and even galangal
Kohlrabi
The nearby whole foods had dragonfruit
And my prizes were:
Sunchokes, zuchini blossoms, two kinds of white eggplant, potatoes, kohlrabi, chienese green onions, and baby butternut squash! Like super baby butternuts!
1/9 food finds
while at the farmers market and out and about we found a few fun things to try or think about trying.
Root veggies are the spotlight at the farmers market this week 
I bought some pretty pink and blue potatoes…these are colored clear through so they lose their color less than those with just a colored skin
It’s been cold so the avocado su ply train is getting a bit week. 
Tiny iceberg lettuces!
Assorted cute little lettuces
And a Penzeys trip
My penzeys haul this week… The Turkish oregano was free (coupon)
Macaron for Jim at lemonade
Buffalo milk butter at whole foods
Cognac barrels! I already have the bourbon barrel version at home waiting to be savored
Needed to try my Singapore spice from penzeys so made a sort of Singapore noodle
And some tofu lettuce cups
Fun food finds 1/2/16
We were Santa Monica farmers market bound today and since winter is usually bland I wasn’t taking any pics until I ran into this this thing so I started with the food pics….
Having no idea what it was, I bought some. Wikipedia and several sites have cleared up my lack of knowledge…Mountain yams are a Asian tuber that turn into goo if you grate and get mucilaginous plus have an itchy skin that needs soaked in water and vinegar to neutralize…sounds like a winner here :-p
Kohlrabi are also in season as I found baby ones last weekend
Sun chokes have been about for a month or so but few in attendance this week–one vendor said the ground was too frozen to harvest
Sweet limes…which I always look at but never buy….and they aren’t green!
Unhusked walnuts which I haven’t seen in person since I used to have to collect them from my grandpas yard
Mushrooms! Including white truffle which I passed on hoping for black truffle soon…but I picked up some hedgehogs
My favorite cheese vendor provided me with a raw 1year aged white cheddar
Jim found giant macaron that are gluten free at the newly opened Lemonade
And I picked up the foodies coloring book at Barnes and noble!
Farmers market 11/1
whats this?
Can you see the lines that run along it? It sorta looks like a long bean but not really and it has basically no smell…anyone?
Also the radishes and carrots are in which are pretty
Persimmons and apples
I did get onion sprouts and wheat grass (the latter for the cats)
