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Archive for 'Farmer’s Market'

Chard is Good. No, Really

Chard is GoodIt’s one of those “dark, leafy greens” we’re supposed to be eating like 10 times a day. And you may have eaten it before and wondered why someone was serving you stringy weeds that taste bitter get stuck in your teeth. But I promise Swiss chard can be really tasty. Delicious in fact. The first few times

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Love: Strawberries (and my Favorite Strawberry Salad)

A few weeks ago I started making a list of all my favorite things to eat. I was doing this partly because I had thought of including it on the “about me” page on my new website (which is coming very soon, yay!) and partly because I love making lists, especially food-related lists. And partly because I was probably

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Fuzzy Friends

After a long, hot summer and plenty of bad fruit (Seriously, is there anything as disappointing as a mealy peach?), it’s finally peach season in Colorado. Our really, truly delicious, worth-the-wait peaches come from the western slopes of the Rockies near Colorado’s peach capitol, Palisade. And I think they are some of the best anywhere. (If I have any Georgian readers

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Summer’s Here and It Tastes Delicious

To me, summer feels like it’s really, finally here when the market is overflowing with tomatoes that actually look like tomatoes — instead of those artificially shiny orange balls we seem to get all winter. When the tomatoes are plump and gorgeous like they are now, I know it’s time to make my all-time favorite Summer Tomato Sauce.

Full disclosure: I actually don’t like plain, raw tomatoes and rarely

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Basket Case

My first trip to the farmer’s market this spring was, ahem, somewhat fruitless. I bought a few Roma tomatoes and saw (but skipped) some sad-looking bok choy, but it’s generally still too early for local fruits and vegetables in the Rockies. So, this time of year, our farmer’s market is more like a gourmet food and crafts festival, which is still pretty fun. Everything is basically local, even if it’s

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