shopping: liquor store and farmer's market

[coraa]

Food porn time!

I spent, oh... let's see: out of the past six weeks, I've been away from home for about four weeks. So I didn't do a lot of cooking and shopping in between, because it didn't seem worthwhile to buy a lot of food in order to watch it go bad while I was away.

Also, the last time the boy and I were at the liquor store was in preparation for the 2008 election night party, so it'd been a while.

So yesterday, we went to the liquor store. I now have enough kahlua and Irish cream to make legions of froofy coffee drinks, which is good, because we probably won't make it back to the liquor store until another year passes. ;)

And today, we went to the farmer's market! I am particularly pleased with the spoils of that quest.

In terms of meat, we got a chicken (which will be roasted for dinner), plus chicken feet and necks for stock; sweet Italian sausage (for a potato, sausage and onion fry-up sometime next week); and a keta salmon fillet, which I may glaze and grill or I may sous vide.

Veg was, of course, the largest haul: purple kale and curly green kale (one of which will be turned onto udon soup with kale); brussels sprouts (for warm shredded sprout salad); a mixed bag of root vegetables for braising or roasting (looks like a mix of carrots, potatoes, turnips, beets, and rutabagas); a huge bag of carrots; and a small bag of assorted mixed potatoes. Also, a bag each of dried chanterelle and lobster mushrooms, which I will combine with the fresh crimini mushrooms I have on hand to make a mushroom risotto.

We also got dried field peas (which I'm thinking of using in peas and rice, or possibly in soup); dried cranberry beans (definitely for beans and rice); and fresh wheat flour, by which I mean milled just last week. The wheat flour will be used to try to make a classic baguette, and I'm also using it to reboot my sourdough starter, which got a bit grim-looking after a few months of neglect.

Finally, a few treats: a gallon of Honeycrisp cider, a box of very gingery molasses-ginger caramels, a small round of camembert-style cheese.

Dinner tonight: roast chicken and vegetables, with an apple salad on the side. Tomorrow: vegetable-chicken soup with the leftover chicken, and fresh baguette. I'm also going to experiment with planning out a week's worth of meals, so we'll see how that goes.

Mmm. Now to clean the kitchen so I have room to put this all away....

Comments

[bellwethr.livejournal.com]

What an awesome farmer's market haul!

[jmpava.livejournal.com]

Indeed! I LOVE going to the farmers market in a light rain in January. Hardly anyone is there, so you really get to get in there and see what people have.

She also understates the liquor store haul a bit as well - seeing as it's been over a year since the last time we made it to one, we figured we'd stock up. We now have as full a liquor cabinet/collection as I've ever had since the last time Shamik left all his stuff at my place after a party ;->

[bellwethr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's awesome. The farmer's markets are getting some great stuff for January too! We saw black truffles & fresh duck meat & duck eggs @ the WS Farmer's market. I'm hoping the truffles are still around when we have a kitchen again!

We just hit the liquor store too -- can't wait to have folks over eventually for drinks -- one of my christmas gifts was a matched set of locally distilled vodka/gin/whiskey!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

One of my hopes for this year is to eat more vegetables. Pav and I both love vegetables, but when it's evening and I'm tired it's so easy to just reach for the meat. Which, I enjoy eating meat, but since veg are healthier and cheaper, it'd be nice to skew the proportions that way.

Going to the farmer's market gives me a lot of impetus to cook with vegetables. :D

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmm. My wee!kale seedlings are coming along. I'm so disappointed that our winter has been so harsh. Usually I can overwinter my own garden kale and keep eating it.

Do you have a favorite recipe for beans and rice with your cranberry beans? My mom has lovely organic cranberry beans that I'd make into something good.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Kale is a lifesaver in winter, when there's so little that's seasonal and green. Last winter I experimented with a ton of ways to cook it.

Re: cranberry beans and rice&mdashyes, I do, and I'd be happy to share. Are they dried cranberry beans or fresh? (They both work with what I do, but the recipe differs depending.)

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

I adore kale. Mmmm, kale!

The cranberry beans are dried. They're really pretty.

[morganlf.livejournal.com]

Speaking of booze, K. and I went to Smash Wine Bar over in your neck of the woods last night. We almost called to see if you wanted to come with, but knew that you were probably still recovering from your travels.

It was a fun place! I had their bubbly flight, which had three yummy champagne-style drinks. They also had some mighty fine-looking food including truffled mac & cheese!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Oooh, good to know! We've walked past it a million times, but we've never been in (mostly because we're usually down that way at lunchtime)—we should give it a try.