Great ingredients make amazing tasting meals and cooking easy. This week I treated myself with a trip to the local (local being a relative term here as I had to drive 30 minutes) winter farmers’ market. Beautiful choices including local olive oils and cheese, root vegetables, greens, and citrus fruits I’d never seen before.
I ended up with a couple of blood oranges, golden potatoes, olive oil, sunflower sprouts, and a butternut squash. After reading about my friend Haley’s chicken eggs, I was hoping for a dozen local eggs, but I was out of luck – there were no chicken eggs to be had in this neck of the woods.
The blood oranges were beautiful inside. Like a striking sunset, the colors emanated orange, pinks, and red from its center. Unfortunately, these beauties tasted anything but sweet. They were sour, bitter, and painfully acidic.
Spicy mustard, goat cheddar cheese, local salami, and some of the sunflower sprouts (spicy!) on a local ciabatta bread from the bakery in town made for a delicious sandwich this week. Do you have a local winter food source or farmers’ market?
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