It's been a crazy couple of weeks. I have lots of new posts developing that will come soon, promise. We just returned from a few days in West Marin County staying at The Olema Inn. It was a great week away. Much more about that later.
Aside from that, we moved about ten days ago ... so everything is upside down. Happy, but upside down. (For those of you paying attention, that was a we ... as in moved. in. together.)
Looking forward to a week of eating in, and getting back to basics food-wise. I celebrated my birthday last week (life begins at thirty-one?) and between that and going away, we have been doing a lot of dining out. We had fantastic meals - some of the best in recent memory - but I am ready to do some cooking and eating uncomplicated meals this week.
We went to the farmer's market this morning to help with this goal. We are in between seasons here ... some of the summer fruit is sticking around, and it's a little too early for most of the fall fruits. A friend at the market told me "It's kind of a boring week for product" - while I don't completely agree, I didn't see anything new this week, save for some additional apple varietals. Fresh dates came into the market two weeks ago - those are a treat for anyone who hasn't tried them.
I picked up: kale, spinach, tomatoes (new zealand pink paste, black brandywine, pineapple), poblano chiles, beets, tomatoes, mint, oregano, lemon verbena, dry beans, black mission figs, mushrooms (forgot what type - jason picked them). It was a great trip.
Thanks for sticking with me through the couple of weeks of sporadic postings ... things should be much more normal now. Now if I could only find my digital camera in these stacks of boxes ...
