Do you love your farmers market?

Here's to being in-love!
I'm in-love with the city we live in, with my husband, with the weather and with the farmer's market. 

Reno is such a cool place. Around town we have so many farmer's markets and our community embraces them. Every Saturday morning we are going to the closest one, within 2 miles, usually with some vague plan that is ready to be changed based on what is available, looks, tastes and smells good to us.  Many times I will see something new and unfamiliar and I will ask the farmer what it is and how to cook/eat it. Bob will shake his head and look at the watch. Saturdays are not to be spent in conversation with strangers :)

We try to eat fresh ,local grown, sometimes organic vegetables and fruit throughout the year and fresh fruit is something I really miss during the winter! Now I'm finding myself waiting for the weekend to see what else we can find.


Last week we bought 3 lemon cucumbers to try in a salad, and a herb name Lovage to grow in my herb garden.


Lemon Cucumber and Dill

What is really cool is how the veggies themselves change. Garlic is the best example, several weeks ago green garlic was really green, we used it all the time in salads and egg dishes. It was really mellow. Each week the green garlic has gotten closer to its mature state with distinct cloves. Until then it is tender with very little of the parchment type skin it gets when more mature.
  

On a typical Saturday we'll get home and start planning our lunch which will usually involve one or two salads, a veggie dish and maybe some fruit.
 

This weekend we had great finds, and we BBQ'd; corn on the cob, turnips, interesting looking squash and fresh garlic - all turned out wonderful and we made a soy-garlic sauce to sprinkle on top.



Corn, Garlic and Squash BBQ!

 

Our Table

My plate half way

To pair with it, from with last week craziness (we bought this silly amount of beets), I chopped all of them and made a fresh beet salad with a third and bagged the rest for a quick add-in to salads and shakes. 

you can see a similar beet salad we have done before here.

It turned out to be the perfect Saturday with friends dropping by and having a watermelon on our newly cleaned deck.

Have a wonderful week and eat veggies!
Bob and Yifat