It's a beautiful Saturday here in the Southern Tier of New York. While many others bake or deal with wildflowers, we are enjoying a summer day and the abundance of product that shows up at our local farmers market. It feels a little weird, with what is going on in so many other places.
This is the peak of sweet corn season. Spouse and I eat it nearly every day.
Blueberries are finishing up.
Freestone peaches. We can not grow peaches where we live, so these are all imported, probably from Pennsylvania. I may be too fussy but my time living in Kansas and Arkansas and being able to pick my own peaches spoiled me. I rarely eat store bought peaches, even from farmers markets.
Kirbys are my favorite cucumber and it's strange that we don't grow them. (We opt for small space cucumbers). Cucumber varieties do matter. Kirbys are a small pickling cucumber. We make simple sour refrigerator pickles with them and I have a slice each day if I make a sandwich for lunch.
"Little" eggplant. In my opinion these were picked too late-I don't think they should have been as big as many of these were. My spouse bought one of the smaller ones, hoping that these (long Asian eggplants) won't be as seedy as some of the classic Italian black eggplants we are used to.
Our garden is producing an abundance of tomatoes and basil right now. My spouse makes eggplant parmigiana with minimal oil and no breading. I happen to like it that way but I have a feeling he will make something different tonight.
It's such a delicious time of the year and we are fortunate to be able to enjoy it.
I hope all is well with you, my readers.
You reminded me I need to get to our Growers' Market (sounds like it would be for weed, as that's what a "grower" is here!) next week. I don't want to wait too long or the nice summer fruits will be gone. I don't buy peaches from stores, I can't ripen them (they sort of shrivel), but they may have some riper ones. I can ripen nectarines. Eggplant are beautiful plants, with beautiful flowers and fruit. However, I don't like it to eat. I've grown it for beauty and given away the fruit.
ReplyDelete...we have been having fabulous sweet corn.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me miss my veggie gardens of the past, although our current scorching weather makes me glad I don't have one to care for.
ReplyDeleteI love berries and nuts too.
ReplyDeleteWe are enjoying a wealth of local produce too, a veritable cornucopia. We have been very fortunate recently that two friends who have a weekly farm share have been away and gave their share to us (different weeks) and we were thrilled with what we received. We have only had corn once so far this year; time to do it again. Maybe tonight!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you found such great things at the farmers market. (We're hunkering down for hurricane, scratch that, tropical storm Hilary. Woo-hoo!)
ReplyDeleteHi Alana - gosh they all look so good - I love fresh corn on the cob - but all the delicious goodies shown here look so good ... cheers Hilary
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