Farmer's Market and Canal Locks
Feb. 22nd, 2009 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coraaWell, this morning (well, noonish), ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jmpava and I went to the Ballard Farmer's Market. Market spoils: a bunch of green kale, a bunch of purple kale, a bunch of mustard greens (a variation I'm not familiar with -- the leaves are sort of feathery), a bag of Yukon Gold potatoes and a bag of mixed small potatoes of various kinds (some red, some purple, some white), a bag of carrots, a jar of blackberry-and-wildflower honey, a couple of heads of garlic, a bag of brussels sprouts, some German sausage, a take-n-bake intense dark chocolate cake in a jar (they were giving samples, and oh my goodness, so tasty), a bag of caramel corn, and -- the biggest splurge, but one we've been wanting ever since having tried the samples the first time we went -- a half-pound of wonderfully tender brown-sugar-and-garlic-smoked salmon. They had arugula and cilantro, also, but they looked pretty sad; I'm not sure whether that's because they're not really in season, or if all the good examples got snapped up before we made it to the market. Tonight: pasta tossed with smoked salmon and some kind of green vegetable, in a very light sauce of probably olive oil and garlic and finely-shredded cheese. Possibly with kale chips on the side. I should post my kale chip recipe one of these days.
Then we went to the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, which are the locks between Ballard and Magnolia on the ship canal. We walked all around the locks and the gardens, watched a few boats pass through, looked at the fish ladder viewing room (which had basically no fish in it, as this isn't migratory season for any of the major fish types), and had a pretty good time. Smelled like ocean.
jmpava and I went to the Ballard Farmer's Market. Market spoils: a bunch of green kale, a bunch of purple kale, a bunch of mustard greens (a variation I'm not familiar with -- the leaves are sort of feathery), a bag of Yukon Gold potatoes and a bag of mixed small potatoes of various kinds (some red, some purple, some white), a bag of carrots, a jar of blackberry-and-wildflower honey, a couple of heads of garlic, a bag of brussels sprouts, some German sausage, a take-n-bake intense dark chocolate cake in a jar (they were giving samples, and oh my goodness, so tasty), a bag of caramel corn, and -- the biggest splurge, but one we've been wanting ever since having tried the samples the first time we went -- a half-pound of wonderfully tender brown-sugar-and-garlic-smoked salmon. They had arugula and cilantro, also, but they looked pretty sad; I'm not sure whether that's because they're not really in season, or if all the good examples got snapped up before we made it to the market. Tonight: pasta tossed with smoked salmon and some kind of green vegetable, in a very light sauce of probably olive oil and garlic and finely-shredded cheese. Possibly with kale chips on the side. I should post my kale chip recipe one of these days.Then we went to the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, which are the locks between Ballard and Magnolia on the ship canal. We walked all around the locks and the gardens, watched a few boats pass through, looked at the fish ladder viewing room (which had basically no fish in it, as this isn't migratory season for any of the major fish types), and had a pretty good time. Smelled like ocean.