Sunday, July 12, 2009
Farmers Market
On Saturday Joy, Alexander and I visited the Lexington Farmers Market that is run in the car park of the Lexington Horse Centre. Joy was on a hunt for peas, even tho peas are out of season now, she was determined to track some down (she didn’t manage to). One of the stalls was selling lamb, it seemed a tad expensive but you knew it was locally grown. Lots of different veg was on sale so we scooped up some fresh leeks, very long and skinny leeks for Sunday nights menu (Leek and potato soup) and some ‘new’ potatoes (which I think was just a codename for small).
Joy also found someone she recently met at the local library, April, whom was up at 4am making bread and apparently all night making more bread! Ahh the live of a baker. In any event we picked up a really nice focaccia loaf with spring onion and asiago cheese on top. I made a olive oil dipping sauce for it mmmmmmmmm (EVOO, balsamic vinegar, rock sat, cracked black peppercorns)... was good.
We also picked up a bag of mustard greens for the chickens, but it seems between Kale, Mustard Greens and Collard Greens they really really love the kale the most. So its a bust on the mustard greens but they must be eaten.
Right now I’m frying up the leeks for our leek and potato soup so the kitchen is hot but has a nice aroma..